20, 22, 24 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh

Circa 1878. 4-storey, 6-bay Scots Baronial tenement. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; corbel table at 3rd floor stepped down to 2nd floor at 3rd and 4th bays; chamfered reveals.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3 architraved doorways at ground divided by bipartite windows; deep-set panelled doors; plate glass fanlights. Advanced round tower to outer right, set in re-entrant angle with neighbour (nos 26-30 Warrender Park Road and 22-30 Marchmont Crescent, see separate listing); bipartite windows to all floors; additional single window at ground; window at 3rd floor breaking eaves in pedimented and finialled dormerhead with circular patera inset; conical roof with cast-iron weathervane finial. Full-height canted window in bay to outer left, corbelled to square in crowstepped gablehead with floral patera inset. Bipartite windows in bay to inner left; 3rd floor window breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead with thistle finial and circular patera inset. Single windows in bay to inner right; 3rd floor window breaking eaves in finialled pedimented dormerhead. Single windows in remaining central bays, surmounted by crowstepped gable; blank tablet between bays at 3rd floor; bracketted semi-circular pediment set in gablehead.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped and rendered gablehead and mutual stacks; moulded cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1990.

Low saddleback wall to street.