22, 24 Burgess Street, Leith, Edinburgh

This is a four-storey corner tenement building located at 22 and 24 Burgess Street, Leith, Edinburgh, built in 1895 to a design by W N Thomson. The building is constructed in an irregular, asymmetrical Baronial style with a prominent corner turret and shops at ground floor level.

The front is primarily red sandstone at ground floor level, though this is now painted. The northwest (shore) and first two bays of the northeast (Burgess Street) elevation are faced with ashlar to ground floor level, while the upper sections are of squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. The rear and sides are rendered with sandstone dressings. Chamfered reveals are present at the ground floor openings, with rounded reveals above. The building features crowstepped gables and dormers with corbelled skewputts.

The northwest elevation is asymmetrical and has five bays including the corner turret. The ground floor has two large rectangular openings, some of which have been infilled. A doorway, now a blocked window, is located in a splayed corner to the outer left. To the right is a three-storey corner turret which is corbelled off-centre. There are three windows at each of the first and second floors. The third floor incorporates a single window that breaks the eaves, set behind an ashlar parapet with panels divided by turned ashlar balusters. A narrow window is situated in the centre bay, with one bay to the left blank. A bay to the right has single windows, and a bay to the outer right has a curved corner at ground and first floor levels, along with a small secondary doorway; single windows above. A bowed bartizan, corbelled above the first floor, features a conical roof with a finial.

The northeast elevation has six bays, excluding the corner turret. The ground floor features blocked and altered shop fronts, and a common stair doorway off-centre to the left, complete with a panelled door and plate glass fanlight. Two gabled centre bays feature single windows and corbelled courses at the first and second floors. A bay to the right of centre has single windows, with those above the first floor contained within a gabled, corbelled ashlar panel. A bay to the outer right is blank, with a cross-sectioned shouldered ashlar wallhead stack corbelled in three steps, rendered above the wallhead. To the left, the wallhead rises to allow for an additional floor. A bay to the left of centre has a taller stair window with a shallow ball-finialled pediment; single windows above, with a fourth-floor window breaking the eaves within a gabled dormerhead. A bay to the outer left has two small windows at first floor level, single windows above, and fourth-floor windows with a similar gablehead. A two-storey gabled wing is located to the outer left with a single window.

The southeast elevation has two bays with single windows to the left bay, with a fourth-floor window breaking the eaves in a gabled dormerhead. A wallhead stack is situated to the right bay. The southwest (rear) elevation is blank with a small wallhead stack and remains of adjoining party walls.

The windows are timber sash and case with six-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes. The roof is slate with metal flashings, and a mansard to the southeast portion. The building has three wallhead stacks and transverse stacks. Crowstepped ashlar skews with corbelled skewputts are also present. The interior was not inspected in 1993.