15 Hillside Crescent and 30, 32 Hillside Street, Edinburgh

John Chesser, 1880s. Classical tenement on corner site; 4-storey and basement, 4-bay (5-bay to ground floor) near-symmetrical elevation to Hillside Crescent; 4-storey and basement, 5-bay elevation to Hillside Street. Polished ashlar; rendered basement; coursed rubble with dressed margins to rear. Dividing band between basement and ground floor; dividing band between ground and 1st floor; moulded cill course to 1st floor; cill band to 2nd floor; cill band to 3rd floor; eaves cornice; blocking course. Predominantly regular fenestration; architraves to ground (Wellington Street elevation only), 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor windows; aprons to windows to 1st floor.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to 4th bay from left to ground floor, timber-panelled door with letterbox fanlight, framed by doorpiece of 2 engaged fluted Greek Doric columns supporting entablature and pediment breaking 1st floor cill course. To 2nd and 6th bay from left, timber-panelled door with letterbox fanlight, framed by Greek Doric pilasters with slightly projecting entablature above. To ground floor windows; extended cills to windows flanking central doorway, recessed surrounds and aprons to remainder. Modillioned cornice below 3rd floor cill course.

NW (WELLINGTON STREET) ELEVATION: to far left, 4-storey and basement canted bay; tripartite windows with stop-chamfered mullions. Blind windows to far right bay. Corniced 1st floor windows. Returned modillioned cornice below 3rd floor cill course to far right.

GLAZING etc: plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Double-pitched roof; graded grey slates; stone skews and skewputts. To Hillside Crescent elevation, 1 mutual ridge stack to far right, 1 ridge stack to centre, 1 ridge stack to right, both stacks corniced ashlar with predominantly octagonal cans. To Wellington Street elevation, 1 shouldered wallhead stack to right, 1 ridge stack to centre, 1 gablehead stack to far left; all stacks corniced and rendered with circular cans.