14 India Street, Edinburgh

14 India Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey and basement tenement building designed by William and Lewis A Wallace between 1819 and 1823. It is constructed from polished sandstone ashlar, featuring polished V-jointed rustication at the principal floor and rock-faced rustication at the basement. The building has a cill course at the first and second floors, a band course at the principal and first floors, and a cornice with a blocking course at the second floor. The entrance includes ashlar steps and entrance platts that overhang the basement.

The principal elevation features a round-arched doorpiece in the left bay, which includes a flush-panelled door with an umbrella fanlight. To the right, there are windows with regular fenestration on the floors above, and a blind window is centered at the second floor. A carved ashlar plaque between the windows at the principal floor commemorates James Clerk Maxwell, a natural philosopher born there on June 13, 1831. The basement area is flagged and has coped rubble retaining walls, with vertically boarded timber doors leading to the cellars.

The building predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate M-roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods. There is a rubble gablehead stack with broached ashlar dressings, topped with circular cans, and coped skews.

The interior was not seen in 1997, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters. The property also features ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have spear-headed balusters and urn finials. A cast-iron lamp with a glass globe is mounted on the railings.