4 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh

John Watherston and Sons, 1855-6. Classical terrace comprising unified faacde of 4-storey and basement townhouses with main-door and common stair flats behind; 2-storey and basement angled block to W with corniced eaves course. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Sandstone ashlar, channelled at ground floor. 2-storey 3-light, corniced canted bays. Banded base course; corniced and banded string course, incorporating doorpiece entablature. Corniced eaves course. Raised and moulded doorpiece, linked to pedimented and architraved 1st floor window above. Moulded architraved surrounds to windows at ground floor of 2-storey block with blank recessed panel beneath moulded cills. Moulded architraved surrounds to canted bays at ground and 1st floors. Corniced cills at 2nd floor with scrolled aprons. Corniced tripartite windows at 2nd floor. 4 shouldered architraved windows at 3rd floor; corniced cills; some bracketed (3 cills removed to No. 6).

W (END) ELEVATION: prominent shouldered wallhead stack to main gable; banded string courses. Single off-centre window at 1st floor to 2-storey block, with recessed rainwater goods to right. 3 banded architraved windows to each floor of gable end, flanking windows blind; small cast-iron balcony at 3rd floor to centre.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 5 storeys, roughly 6 bays. Squared coursed rubble with ashlar quoins. Regular fenestration with ashlar cills, lintels and rybats. 5-storey canted bays at every 3rd bay.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Double pitch M-section roof. Corniced ashlar stacks with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings on ashlar coping stone edging basement recess to street. Cast-iron rainwater goods.