7-14 Melville Terrace, Edinburgh

Robert Brown, 1826. 3-storey part basement and attic 9-bay commercial terrace comprising former townhouses (converted to flats); later plain classical shop fronts at ground floor (some later at 7-10), with pilastraded basement to Nos. 12-13; later box dormers at attic. Sandstone ashlar; corniced timber shop fronts at ground floor; plain stallrisers; recessed and pilastered to right (N) with platt oversailing basement. Banded cill course to 1st and 2nd floors. Corniced eaves course. Doorway to upper accommodation to centre with large square margin fanlight, and narrow sidelights. Architraved and corniced windows at 1st floor.

Plate glass to ground floor shop fronts; 16-pane (lying pane pattern)

in timber sash and case windows at 1st floor; 12-pane in timber sash and case windows at 2nd floor and attic (plate glass to left (S) at attic). Double pitch M-section roof; grey slates. Coped ashlar ridge stacks, modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings edging basement recess to street to right (N). Cast-iron rainwater goods.