65 Cumberland Street, Edinburgh

Probably designed by Thomas Bonnar in the early 19th century, 65 Cumberland Street is a three-storey and basement, thirty-bay terraced tenement. The building is constructed from broached ashlar sandstone, with channelled detailing at the main floor level. Horizontal bands of stone define the levels between the basement and main floor, and between the main floor and the first floor. Cill courses are present at the first and second floors, topped by a cornice and blocking course at the second floor level. The windows on the main floor are recessed, while those above have architraved surrounds with cornices, although the details are defaced at numbers 59 and 61. Ashlar steps and oversailing entrance platts define the basement level.

The main (north) elevation features four matching, five-bay terraced sections. Each includes a four-panel timber door with a rectangular fanlight centrally located on the main floor, flanked by regularly placed windows on the other bays. A section to the left has a four-panel timber doors with a rectangular fanlight, with windows to the left and a two-bay shop front at number 61, formerly occupied by J E Hogg, Wine Merchant, featuring a timber door, fanlight, plate glass window and further regular windows above. A section to the right has two four-panel timber doors with rectangular fanlights at the centre and the fifth bay from the right, a four-panel timber door with a rectangular fanlight in the fifth bay from the left, and other bays featuring regular window patterns.

The west elevation consists of a coursed rubble gable, rendered above the blocking course, with windows centrally placed on all floors. A single-storey building with a felted roof adjoins the gable on the far right. The east elevation connects to the adjacent terrace, which is separately listed (43-57 Cumberland Street).

The building has predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows, covered by a grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater pipes are visible. The ridge and gablehead stacks are built from broached ashlar with coped details and circular cans. The skew copes are also ashlar.

Interiors were not inspected in 1997, but there is evidence of working panelled shutters.

The front is enclosed by ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple finials.