7-14 Melville Terrace, Edinburgh

7-14 Melville Terrace in Edinburgh is a three-storey building with a part basement and attic, designed by Robert Brown in 1826. This nine-bay commercial terrace originally consisted of townhouses that have since been converted into flats. The ground floor features later plain classical shop fronts, with some alterations at numbers 7 to 10, and a pilastraded basement for numbers 12 and 13. The attic has been fitted with later box dormers.

The building is constructed from sandstone ashlar and has corniced timber shop fronts at the ground level, plain stallrisers, and a recessed and pilastered section to the north side with a platt oversailing basement. There is a banded cill course on the first and second floors, and a corniced eaves course. The central doorway leading to the upper accommodation is topped with a large square margin fanlight and flanked by narrow sidelights. The first-floor windows are architraved and corniced.

The ground floor shop fronts feature plate glass, while the first floor has 16-pane timber sash and case windows. The second floor and attic are fitted with 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with plate glass on the south side at the attic. The roof is a double pitch M-section covered with grey slates, and it has coped ashlar ridge stacks with modern clay cans. There are cast-iron railings along the basement recess to the street on the north side and cast-iron rainwater goods.