43 Leith Street, Edinburgh

Late 18th century. Wedge-plan tenement on sloping corner site; 4 storeys, basement and attic, 4-bay elevation to Leith Street, single bay bowed elevation to N corner, 5 bay elevation to Calton Road. Droved ashlar with polished margins (coursed square rubble to Calton Road). Regular fenestration.

NW (LEITH STREET) ELEVATION: 3 modern timber shopfronts with recessed doorways to ground floor. To upper floors, cill course; 2 single windows at inner bays flanked at outer right and left by tripartite windows. Eaves cornice, blocking course. 2 dormers to roof.

N (CORNER) ELEVATION: steps down to basement doorway and Calton Road. To upper floors; central window with apron and projecting moulded cill below.

E (CALTON ROAD) ELEVATION: predominantly regular fenestration; some alterations and insertions to lower floors; blind windows to upper storeys of outer right bay.

GLAZING etc: plate glass glazing in timber frames to ground floor; predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to upper floors; 4-pane glazing to side sections of tripartite windows. To dormers, grey slate piend roofs, haffits and fascias. 2 rooflights between dormers. Pitched roof with piended section to N; graded grey slate. Corniced rendered ridge stack with circular cans; corniced rubble and rendered wallhead stack to E elevation.