4 Torphichen Street, Edinburgh

James Haldane, earlier to mid 19th century. 3-storey with basement plain classical pavilions, 4 bays at W (adjoining West Maitland Street), 7 bays at E (adjoining Torphichen Place), flank 2-storey, 6-bay classical block with basement and attic. Droved sandstone ashlar to basement, V-jointed polished sandstone ashlar rustication to ground floor, polished sandstone ashlar to upper floors, including dressings. Base course; band course between principal and 1st floors; anta pilasters to 1st and 2nd floor end pavilions; corniced architraves and ornamental ironwork balconies to 1st floor windows, central block; string course; cornice; blocking course (raised at centre to end blocks). Windows recessed in round-arched openings to ground floor of end blocks, box dormers to central block. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION:

W block (2 Torphichen Street): 4-bay; entrance door to No 2A beneath oversailing platt at bay to left of centre; windows to remaining bays at basement; 4-panel timber door with round-arched fanlight to bay to left of centre at ground floor; windows to remaining bays at ground floor and to all bays upper floors; ornamental ironwork window-guards to 2nd floor windows.

Central block (4 and 6 Torphichen Street): 6-bay; oversailing to No 6 infilled with door to return at basement; timber door to penultimate bay to left at basement; window to 3rd bay from left; blank wall beneath oversailing to No 4; timber door with rectangular fanlight at penultimate bay to right; window to bay to outer right; 4-panel timber door with rectangular fanlight to outer left and third from right bays at ground floor; windows to remaining bays at ground floor and to all bays upper floor; 2 pairs of corniced tripartite box dormers above.

E block (12 Torphichen Street): replacement timber door with boarded fanlight to third bay from left at basement; part-glazed timber door with rectangular fanlight and small light flanking on left to third bay from right; windows to remaining bays at basement; portico with dentilled broken pediment supported by polished granite columns, Ionic pilasters behind, to centre of ground floor; architectonic panelled timber and glass door with fanlight; windows to flanking bays at ground floor and to all bays upper floors.

W ELEVATION: obscured by adjoining building.

S ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

2-pane sash and case windows, small-pane dormers. Grey slate roof; coped skews. Ridge and gablehead coped rendered stacks with moulded cylindrical cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

RAILINGS: spear-head and fleur-de-lys railings to street and entrance platts, with acorn-headed finials to entrances to basement.