33, 34, 35 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh

Sir James Gowans, 1868-70. 4-storey, attic and basement 6-bay mansard-roofed tenement block with idiosyncratic details. Polished ashlar (painted to ground). String courses dividing floors; stone bracketed eaves. Decorative bracketed surrounds to windows. Serrated Moorish lintels to 1st floor. Round-arched windows to 2nd floor push up bracketed eaves below dormers. Steeply-pitched gabled dormers to attic with stone bracketed eaves. Entrances in outer left, 3rd from left and 2nd from right bays; outer left: round-arched timber panelled door in round-arched glazed doorpiece with flanking side-lights in recess with serrated carved decoration in spandrels; 3rd from left and 2nd from right: 2-leaf glazed timber doors (modern) with round-arched fanlights (sunburst to right, blocked to left) in recessed surrounds with serrated decoration on spandrels. Tripartite windows with decorative stone mullions to each floor in 2nd and 4th from left and outer right bays.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Moulded stone ridge. Fluted ashlar stalks with scalloped, bracketed cornices; decorative octagonal cans with serrated tops.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: decorative cast-iron railings on low ashlar boundary wall with stone piers marking entrance at No 32.