38 Danube Street, Edinburgh

James Milne, begun 1824. Prominent 2-storey, basement and attic, 4-bay corner tenement in plain classical style with giant order anta pilasters and pilastered ashlar attic storey. Sandstone ashlar. Entrance platts oversailing basement area recess to street. Banded base course; moulded cornice at 1st floor with plain entablature; corniced eaves with narrow blocking course over. Inset doorways; boarded 4-panel timber doors and rectangular fanlights. Inset cast-iron balustrades to 1st floor windows. 2 blind bays to right at 1st floor of NE (Danube Street) elevation.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: coursed squared rubble with tooled ashlar rybats, lintels and cills.

Predominantly 12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows,

4- over 12-lying pane glazing at 1st floor. Double-pitched roof; grey slates. Corniced rendered wallhead stack to NE (Danube Street) elevation; corniced ashlar wallhead stacks; some clay cans. Cast-iron railings edging basement area recess to street, incorporating decorative lamp standards with large bowl shades.

INTERIOR: (selection of interiors seen 2010) decorative classical scheme, characterised by intricate plasterwork, large drawing rooms and stone stairs with well-detailed balustrades, topped by large cupolas. Some later conversion to flats.