33, 34, 35 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh

33, 34, 35 Castle Terrace is a four-storey tenement block with an attic and basement, built between 1868 and 1870 by Sir James Gowans. This six-bay building features a mansard roof and has distinctive architectural details. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, which is painted at the ground level. There are string courses that separate the floors, and the eaves are supported by stone brackets. The windows have decorative bracketed surrounds, with serrated Moorish lintels on the first floor. The second floor has round-arched windows that push up against the bracketed eaves below the dormers. The attic features steeply-pitched gabled dormers, also with stone bracketed eaves.

The entrances are located in the outer left bay, the third bay from the left, and the second bay from the right. The outer left entrance has a round-arched timber panelled door set within a round-arched glazed doorpiece, flanked by sidelights in a recess adorned with serrated carved decoration in the spandrels. The entrances in the third and second bays from the left consist of modern two-leaf glazed timber doors with round-arched fanlights, one featuring a sunburst design to the right and the other blocked to the left, all set in recessed surrounds with serrated decoration in the spandrels. The second and fourth bays from the left and the outer right bay have tripartite windows with decorative stone mullions on each floor.

The windows predominantly feature plate glass within timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there is a moulded stone ridge. The fluted ashlar stalks are topped with scalloped, bracketed cornices and decorative octagonal cans with serrated tops.

The boundary wall is low and made of ashlar, topped with decorative cast-iron railings. Stone piers mark the entrance at No 32.