18 Hill Street, Edinburgh

James Hill, 1788-94. Mirrored pair of 3-storey and attic, 3-bay classical former houses (now single office) on ground falling to N (front). Droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings (stonecleaned). Smaller windows with cill course at ground; eaves course. Broad tripartite architraved doorpieces with fluted frieze and mutuled cornice to inner bays; deep-set flush-panelled doors. Centre 2nd floor window of No 20 blind. Each house with pair of modern piend-roofed bowed dormers.

Irregular rubble 2-storey and attic 2-bay rear elevations with tripartite windows to outer bays at ground, and considerable alterations, including infilling central stair windows; massive modern slate-hung box dormer to No 20.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt stone stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: united as single office, stair of No 18 replaced by lift. Considerable alterations to all floors, but essential shape of rooms and cornicing survives. Each house formerly with 2 large rooms at 1st floor, 3-bay across front and 1 to rear with large pilastered tripartite window.