25, 27, 29 Dundas Street, Edinburgh

David Paton, early 19th century. 4-storey and basement, 9-bay terraced tenement, with centre bay slightly recessed, 4th storey as wallehead attic. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; projecting cills at 1st and 2nd floor; cornice at 2nd floor; string course and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 9-panel timber common stair door, with shallow 5-pane rectangular fanlight set in blind rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor, flanked by windows, flanked in turn by pair of round-arched tripartite doorpieces with 6-panel timber door and plate glass semicircular fanlight at No 25, stained glass thermal fanlight at No 29; windows in remaining bays at outer left; 2-bay painted shop front to outer right, with glazed timber door and plate glass rectangular fanlight, plate glass window. Regular fenestration to floors above, with cills lowered in 2 bays to right at 3rd floor, window guard to right at 3rd floor spanning 4-bays; and to basement, with 2-bay shop front to outer left (No 29B, The Torrance Gallery) with panelled timber door and rectangular fanlight, window to left.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (31-37 Dundas Street).

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (23-23C Dundas Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge and gablehead stacks; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with spear-headed balusters and urn finials.