1 Lennox Street, Edinburgh

1 Lennox Street in Edinburgh is a prominent corner tenement block designed by John Tait in 1855. This four-storey building with a basement features a five-bay front and a three-bay return to the northeast along Lennox Street, all in the Italianate classical style. The exterior is made of sandstone ashlar, with a channelled ground floor. The entrance is set back, with platts that oversail the basement area recess to the street. The building has a banded base course and a banded cill course at the first floor. The southeast elevation, facing Eton Terrace, has scrolled bracketed balconies with geometric cast-iron railings at the first floor. Additional details include a moulded cill course at the third floor and a corniced and dentilled eaves course. The doorways are banded and feature predominantly timber two-leaf, six-panel doors with rectangular fanlights. The first-floor windows have moulded architraves and cornices, while the second and third-floor windows have deep bracketed cills with moulded architraves.

The rear elevation is constructed from coursed squared rubble with tooled ashlar reveals, lintels, and cills, featuring roughly regular fenestration. The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with an eight-pane glazing pattern, twelve-pane glazing at the basement and third floor. The roof is double-pitched, covered with grey slates, and features corniced ashlar ridge and end stacks with octagonal clay cans. The building also has cast-iron rainwater goods and cast-iron railings surrounding the basement area recess to the street.

Inside, the decorative classical scheme includes intricate plasterwork, large drawing rooms, and stone stairs with well-detailed balustrades topped by large cupolas. Some areas have been later converted into flats.