9 Carlton Terrace, Edinburgh

William Playfair, designed 1821-1825, built from late 1820s-mid 1830s. Part of long hairpin-curved terrace of 19 classical town houses; Nos 1-4 and 14-19, rectangular-plan houses with straight 3-bay front elevations; Nos 5-13, wedge-plan houses with curved 4-bay front elevations; predominantly 2-storey and basement with balustraded parapet; panelled parapets to Nos 1, 14 and 17. Droved ashlar to basements; polished ashlar to upper floors; predominantly coursed squared rubble with droved margins to side and rear elevations. Base course to basements; dividing band between basement and ground floors and ground and 1st floors; modillioned eaves cornice to front elevations, eaves band to rear elevations. Raised door surrounds with consoled cornices. Regular fenestration; architraved and corniced windows with panelled aprons to ground floor; architraved windows with cast-iron balconnettes to 1st floor. E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to basement (painted), timber-panelled door with 3-light fanlight and window to right beneath platt; windows to remaining bays. To ground floor, to 3rd bay from left, steps and platt overarching basement recess leading to 2-leaf timber-panelled door with rectangular fanlight. To roof, behind balustrade, 2 canted dormer windows. W (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-bay elevation. GLAZING etc: predominantly 12-pane glazing; 4-pane glazing to ground floor, 1st floor and dormers to front elevation; glazing predominantly in timber sash and case windows. Double-pitched roof with central valley; graded grey slate; stone skews and skewputts. To front, mutual ashlar stack with canted front to left, rendered mutual stack to right; to rear, rendered mutual stack to left, part rendered stack to right; all stacks corniced with circular cans. Some cast-iron rainwater goods. RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: to front, edging basement recess and platt, stone coping surmounted by cast-iron railings with dog bars, spear-head finials and distinctive circled border; wrought iron lamp standard to left of platt. To rear, forming boundary of garden, random rubble walls with predominantly flat coping. INTERIOR: to ground floor: to lobby, good plasterwork, compartmented ceiling, round-headed niche to right, corniced and pilastered doorpiece; to former dining room, painted classical chimneypiece, good plasterwork including ceiling rose. To stairs and stair hall: oval cupola; stone stairs with cast-iron balusters; some good plasterwork to landings and stair hall.