4, 5, 6 Antigua Street, Edinburgh

Thomas Bonnar, 1806. Classical tenement with projecting 3-bay canted polygonal section to corner of Union Street and Antigua Street. 6-bay Union Street elevation; 8-bay Antigua Street elevation; 3 stories, attic and basement (no basement to canted corner or 1st to 3rd bays from left to Antigua Street elevation). Polished ashlar to ground floor (painted smooth V-jointed rustication to 4th to 8th bays from left to Antigua Street elevation); painted broached ashlar to basement; droved ashlar to upper floors. Dividing band between basement and ground floor; dividing band between ground and 1st floor; cill course to 1st floor; main cornice between 2nd and attic floor; modillioned eaves cornice; blocking course. Predominantly regular fenestration.

SW (UNION STREET) ELEVATION: 7-bays to ground floor; to 2nd and 4th bay from left, platts overarching basement recess, leading to doorways with modern 2-leaf timber and glazed doors and letterbox fanlights with half-wheel glazing pattern. To all upper floors, blind windows to 4th and 6th bay from left.

SE (CORNER) ELEVATION: to centre bay, 2-leaf timber panelled door with letterbox fanlight with half-wheel glazing pattern.

E (ANTIGUA STREET) ELEVATION: to ground floor: modern shopfront with central glazed door to 1st and 2nd bays from left; to 3rd bay, timber panelled door with multi-pane glazed fanlight; to 6th bay, steps and platt overarching basement recess leading to timber-panelled door with half-wheel design letterbox fanlight. To basement, modern 2-leaf timber and glazed doors to 5th and 8th bays. To 2nd floor, blind window to 2nd bay. To 4th to 8th bays to attic floor, continuous cast iron balconnette.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-bay elevation with 2 single bay canted sections to right.

GLAZING etc: predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; 8-pane glazing with narrow margin lights in fixed timber frames to ground floor to Union Street and corner elevation, and to basement to Antigua Street; plate glass glazing to Antigua Street shopfront. Pitched roof (piended to canted section); grey slate; stone skews and skewputts. To Union Street elevation, 1 mutual ridge stack to far left, 1 ridge stack to centre; to Antigua Street elevation, 1 ridge stack to left, 1 ridge stack to centre, 1 gablehead stack to right; to rear elevation, 1 wallhead stack to centre; all stacks corniced droved ashlar (squared rubble with droved dressings to wallhead stack) with circular cans.

RAILINGS: to Union Street elevation, spear-head and urn finialled cast iron railings, predominantly set in ashlar copes, edging basement recess and platts; 2 cast iron balconettes beneath windows to right; to Antigua Street elevation, edging basement recess, steps and platt, stone copes (edging basement only) surmounted by spear-head and urn finialled cast iron railings.