1, 3 Grosvenor Street, Edinburgh

Robert Matheson, 1865. 3-storey and basement Italianate tenements with corner pavilions (4-storey at West Maitland Street end, Nos 1 and 3; Nos 23 and 25 form corner with No 9 Lansdowne Crescent, listed separately) and modern attic to intervening block. Polished sandstone ashlar, droved at basement. Base course; cill course to 1st floor; dentilled cornices to 1st floor windows; bracketed block cills to 2nd floor; panelled eaves course incorporating fluted brackets to cornice and blocking course above. Consoled, dentilled cornices and panelled pilasters with circular motif to doorpieces; moulded margins.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced 6-bay corner block at left (Nos 23-25 Grosvenor Street forming corner with 9 Lansdowne Crescent): windows to 6 bays at basement with small additional modern light at outer right; ashlar steps to bay to outer right at ground; doorpiece with door converted to window; regular fenestration to all remaining bays, all floors (penultimate bay to left at 2nd floor blocked). Corner block at right, Nos 1 and 3 Grosvenor Street (front elevation): advanced 5-bay block, with recessed, bowed corner bay at outer right; steps down to basement door to right of oversailing platt at bay to left; steps down to passage door at outer left; doorpieces at bay to left and penultimate bay to right at ground; 6-panel timber door to bay to left at ground, with rectangular fanlight; window to former doorway to penultimate bay to right; regular fenestration to all remaining bays, all floors. Side elevation (to Maitland Street West): advanced 4-bay block with recessed, bowed corner bay at outer left; modern restaurant facade at ground, comprising pair of glazed entrance doors with marble surround (at corner), full-length metal-framed windows and rendered remainder, all with metal canopy; regular fenestration to upper floors. 1st and 2nd floor windows (both elevations) treated as main block; cill course to 3rd floor, with margins to windows; tripartite windows to all upper floors, corner bay.

28-bay recessed intervening block comprising 9 3-bay sections, with additional single bay at outer left: door to centre of each 3-bay section at basement; window to bay to right, with steps down from right; bay to left of centre often infilled beneath oversailing platt, with windows to return; doorpiece to penultimate bay to left at ground and to every third bay thereafter; variety of panelled timber and part-glazed timber doors to doorpieces, some converted to windows; modern hotel entrance canopy to twelfth bay from right; regular fenestration to remaining bays at ground and to upper floors; continuous slate-hung attic.

4- and 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof to end pavilions; attic roof not visible; regularly disposed coped sandstone ashlar stacks, cans removed; cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: fleur-de-lys iron railings (set in painted ashlar coping) to street and to entrance platts.