1-7 Holyrood Road, Edinburgh

D Cousins & J Lessels, 1869. 3-storey and attic, multi-gabled crowstepped Scots Baronial row of tenements, returning 7-bays to Boyd's Entry and 6-bays to Holyrood Road, with shops to ground and single-storey, balustraded shop to No 7 Holyrood Road. Snecked rubble with ashlar margins. Cill course at Nos 58-62, cornice to 2nd storey. Segmental-arched and rectangular window openings, some corniced. Pedimented dormers, some with apex stacks. Canted corner bay at Cowgate with turrets with pepperpot roofs. Canted, corbelled corner at Boyd's Entry with painted bull figurehead.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Shopfronts mainly with stone pilasters and fascias. Some with decorative metal stallrisers. No 52 with glass brick stallrisers and canopies. Recessed entrances to shops with 2-leaf timber storm doors. Predominantly 4 and 6-pane timber entrance doors to flats.

E (rear) elevation with projecting, flat-roofed, ground storey with common drying greens on top surrounded by metal railings.

Predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows to upper storeys, plate glass to ground. Grey slates, gable stacks. Cast iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALL: to E. Coped rubble lower sections with metal railings. Gatepiers with pyramidal caps.