16, 18, 20 Castle Street, Edinburgh

After 1792. Symmetrical 3-storey basement and attic 7-bay former pair of classical houses with flats above on corner site. Droved cream sandstone ashlar (cleaned) with polished dressings. V-jointed rustication at ground; long and short quoins; eaves cornice. Former common stair door at centre, blocked to form window; panelled doors to flanking bays with modern rectangular fanlights. 3 flat-roofed dormers; off-centre bipartite flanked by pair of tripartites. Coursed rubble gable with windows at centre.

4-bay 4-storey dressed rubble rear elevation with 3-storey closet tower at centre and single storey and basement stugged ashlar corniced extension in Rose Street; latter mostly bar, with tripartite entrance.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt ashlar stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: common stair removed; both flats incorporated in No 16. Modern glazed screen in Hall; curving cantilevered stone stair with alternate decorative cast-iron banisters; lift installed. Former Dining and Drawing Rooms with panelled dados, and plain painted chimneypieces. S flat with attic stair with similar banisters. N flat with stair removed, rear room with tripartite window with fluted pilasters; painted and carved chimneypiece also with fluted pilasters. No 20 with enriched ceiling to entrance Hall; glazed archway with fanlight; former Dining Room with panelled dado, grey marble chimneypiece; similar chimneypiece to rear room; former Drawing Room with panelled dado, grey marble chimneypiece and scrolled foliate frieze; rear room with black fossil marble chimneypiece. Extension to rear at ground and basement with office cloakrooms, and bar in Rose Street.