54, 56, 58 Montgomery Street, Edinburgh

Possibly designed by John Chesser, 1880s; built between 1896 and 1909. Classical, near-symmetrical, 4-storey, corner tenement block with splayed corner and distinctive Doric doorpiece and balcony to Brunswick Street. Polished ashlar; squared coursed rubble with dressed margins to rear. Base course; cill course to 2nd floor; dentilled main cornice dividing 2nd and 3rd floors; eaves cornice and blocking course. Regular fenestration; sunken panelled aprons to ground floor windows to Brunswick Street; architraved windows to Brunswick Street elevation and corner.

W (BRUNSWICK STREET) ELEVATION: 6-bay elevation. Dividing bands between ground and 1st floors; 1st floor cill cornice. To ground floor, to 4th bay from left, timber-panelled door with letterbox fanlight; doorpiece of attached fluted Greek Doric columns supporting entablature; above, wrought iron trellis pattern balcony with Greek key border. Bipartite windows to all floors to 3rd and 6th bays from left.

NW (CORNER) ELEVATION: single bay elevation. Dividing bands between ground and 1st floors; 1st floor cill cornice. Bipartite windows.

N (MONTGOMERY STREET) ELEVATION: 5-bay (8-bay to ground floor) elevation. To ground floor, to 2nd, 4th and 6th bays from left, timber-panelled doors with letterbox fanlights. 1st floor cill course. Bipartite windows to all floors to outer left bay and 2nd bay from right.

GLAZING etc: predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Platform roof; grey slate; stone skews and skewputts. To N elevation, 1 mutual rendered ridge stack to left, 2 wallhead stacks (ashlar stack to left), 1 rendered ridge stack to right; to W elevation, ashlar wallhead stack and ridge stack to centre; to S gable, gablehead stack; stacks predominantly corniced with circular cans.