12, 14, 16 Dublin Street, Edinburgh

12, 14, and 16 Dublin Street is a terraced tenement building designed by Robert Reid and William Sibbald in the early 19th century. It stands three stories tall with a basement and features eight bays. The exterior is constructed from broached ashlar sandstone, with V-jointed rustication at the principal floor. There are band courses between the basement and the principal floor, as well as between the principal and first floors. The windows on the first and second floors have projecting cills, and there are ashlar steps and entrance platts that extend over the basement.

On the eastern elevation, there is a nine-panel timber common stair door with a rectangular plate glass fanlight located in the bay to the right of the center at the principal floor. Round-arched doorways with four-panel timber doors and plate glass semicircular fanlights are found in the third bays from the right and left, while the remaining bays at the principal floor contain windows. The floors above exhibit regular fenestration.

The northern elevation adjoins another terrace, which is listed separately (18 and 18A Dublin Street), as does the southern elevation (6-10A Dublin Street).

The building predominantly features two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate in an M shape, with a recessed slate-hung rectangular dormer on the left and a pair of polygonal piended dormers on the right. It has cast-iron rainwater goods, and the broached ashlar stacks break the pitch of the roof, topped with copings and circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1997. The railings consist of ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have spear-headed balusters and urn finials.