26, 28, 30 India Street, Edinburgh

William and Lewis A Wallace, 1819-23; restored 1982. 4-storey and basement, 9-bay classical tenement in terraced site. Tooled sandstone ashlar; channelled polished ashlar at principal floor. Cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; band course at principal and 1st floors; cornice at 2nd floor; blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: recessed doorpieces, comprising common stair door at centre and doors in 3rd bays from outer left and right; flush-panelled doors with rectangular fanlights. Windows in recesses in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor. Cast-iron window guards in windows at 3rd floor, except central bay. Flagged basement area, with coped rubble retaining walls; predominantly vertically boarded timber doors to cellars.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble ridge stacks, with broached ashlar dressings, random rubble gablehead stack with broached ashlar dressings; coped with circular cans. Coped skews.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997.

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.