4 Lennox Place, Edinburgh

John Tait (design altered by John Chesser), 1868-69. Extensive terrace of 2-storey, basement and attic, 2-bay townhouses with advanced 3-storey, 4-bay terminal blocks; all with prominent full height 3-light canted bays. Sandstone ashlar; coursed and squared rubble to gable. Entrance platts oversailing basement. Banded base course; banded string course at ground floor; moulded cornice to canted bay; banded string course at 1st floor to terminal blocks; corniced eaves course with balustraded parapet over. Corniced doorways with large foliate console brackets; predominantly timber 2-leaf, 4-panel doors and rectangular fanlights. Raised banded surrounds to 1st floor windows. Bracketed cills to windows at 2nd floor of terminal blocks. Segmental arched tile hung dormers to centre bays.

SE ELEVATION: gable with full height, 3-light canted bay to right.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: squared and snecked sandstone with stugged ashlar rybats, lintels and cills. Roughly regular fenestration.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Pitched roof; grey slates. Corniced ashlar ridge stacks with octagonal clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cast-iron railings edging basement area recess to street.

INTERIOR: (selection of interiors seen 2010) classical decorative scheme characterised by intricate plasterwork and large drawings rooms. Decorative cornicing to entrance vestibules and principal rooms, some ceiling roses, some large marble fireplaces; stone stairs with well-detailed cast iron balustrade and timber handrail, topped by large cupolas with decorative plasterwork beneath. Some later conversion to flats.