3 Forth Street, Edinburgh

Robert Burn, designed 1800 with later 19th century alterations. 3 bay, 3-storey with attic and basement, terraced classical tenement with 19th century shopfront at ground (see Notes). Sandstone ashlar. Dentil cornice to ground floor, projecting cills to 1st and 2nd floors, band course between 1st and 2nd floors, eaves cornice, entrance platts oversailing basement.

N (PRINCIPAL ELEVATION): 4 bays at ground, tripartite entrance to right with fanlight, tall windows of later 19th century shopfronts to remaining bays of shoulder arched arcade with colonnette mullions, aprons beneath, banded rustication to outer right. Regular fenestration above, 2 piended and canted tripartite dormers.

Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, grey slates, coped skews, gablehead stacks with terracotta cans, decorative cast-iron railings.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.