22-45 Rosemount Buildings, Gardner's Crescent, Edinburgh

William Lambie Moffat, 1860. 3-storey, near square-plan quadrangle of model industrial housing with 4-stage, square-plan corner towers. Polychrome brick. Base course; band courses between stories; eaves course; dentilled cornice; 3-storey giant pilaster order flanking corner towers and at regular intervals to elevations; advanced cills; regular fenestration.

NE (FRONT) AND SW ELEVATIONS: 16-bay. Pilasters every 2 bays in intermediate bays between corner towers; projecting dentilled cornice, dentilled, between 2nd and 3rd floors of corner towers; 3 narrow round-arched openings to 3rd floor glazed with stained glass; cill course, dentilled band course above windows and dentilled eaves course to 4rd floor.

NW AND SE (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: Round-arched entrances to ground of bays next to corner towers; pilasters arranged every 2 bays in intermediate bays between corner towners. Corner towers as to front elevation .

INTERIOR OF COURT: 2 timber doors and fanlights with flanking windows forms continuous pattern. Stair-towers constructed around square shafts.

12-pane timber sash and case windows; blind 4-pane timber sash and case windows to ground of outer bays; segmental-arched heads to French windows with metal window guards, to 1st and 2nd floors of outer bays. Grey slate piended roof; pyramidal roofs to corner towers; roof to side elevations drops slightly in height in 5 sections towards SW and NW. Coped stacks; corniced fireclay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods, including original cast-iron drying poles; railings to galleries in internal court on slim columns.

INTERIORS: not seen 1997.