48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60 Dublin Street, Edinburgh

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century. 3-storey and basement, 7-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor; painted polished ashlar at basement. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; cill course at 1st floor; projecting cills to 2nd floor windows; modillioned cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 9-panel timber common stair door with upper panels glazed, 6-pane rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor; advanced 4-bay pedimented shop front to left at principal floor, corniced with bracketed pediment above fascia, surmounted by cast-iron parapet, comprising recessed glazed timber doors at centre, with geometric rectangular fanlights, flanked by plate glass windows with rounded angles, glazed S return; round-arched doorpiece in 3rd bay from right at principal floor, comprising 4-panel timber door with radial semicircular fanlight. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above, with anthemion and palmette window guards in 3 bays to left at 2nd floor.

N ELEVATION: coursed rubble gable, predominantly blank; pilastered doorpiece with consoled cornice, centred at ground, 3 lights to left of centre at 1st floor.

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (51-59 Dublin Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof; 4 regularly spaced rectangular dormers. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble gablehead stack, with broached ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.

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

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