26 Walker Street, Edinburgh

Robert Brown, 1827-45. 12-bay terrace comprising unified façade of 2-storey basement and attic, 3-bay classical townhouses with main-door and common stair flats behind; later ashlar attic storey to nos. 24, 26 and 28. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Sandstone ashlar, droved ashlar to basement, channelled ashlar to ground floor. Entrance platts oversailing basement. Band course at ground 1st and 2nd floors; string course to 1st floor between windows. Corniced eaves course; balustraded parapet to No. 22. Timber 4-panel doors in square headed doorpieces, rectangular fanlights. Rectangular dormers to No. 22. Cast-iron balconies on foliate brackets to 1st floor windows.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: 4-storey. Regular coursed rubble with some long and short ashlar quoins. Advanced and recessed wall plane with some later additions. Ashlar rybats, lintels and sills to irregular fenestration, some with relieving arches.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows, some 12-pane and 6-over 9-pane in sash and case windows. 24. Double pitch M-section roof; grey slates. Corniced ashlar gable end stacks with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings above ashlar coping stone edging basement recess to street; spear headed finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods.