11, 13, 15 Cornwall Street, Edinburgh

Sir James Gowans, 1868-70. 3-storey attic and basement 5-bay mansard-roofed symmetrical tenement block with idiosyncratic details. Polished ashlar. String courses dividing floors; stone bracketed eaves. Decorative bracketed surrounds to windows. Steeply-pitched gabled dormers with stone bracketed eaves to 3 centre bays (date-1870- architect's name and heraldic device in gables); small hooded dormers to outer bays. Stone steps and platts over-arching basement area to centre and outer bays to left and right; timber panelled door in hooded Serliana to centre; timber panelled doors with round-arched fanlights in round-arched glazed doorpieces with flanking side-lights within recesses with serrated carved decoration in spandrels to outer bays. Tripartite windows with decorative stone mullions at ground, 1st and 2nd floors in intervening bays; shoulder-arched windows to 1st floor with serrated Moorish carving; round-arched windows to 2nd floor push up bracketed eaves below dormers.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Moulded stone ridge. Fluted ashlar stalks with scalloped, bracketed cornices; decorative octagonal cans with serrated tops.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: decorative cast-iron railings on low ashlar boundary wall with stone piers marking entrances.