20 Bruntsfield Avenue, Edinburgh

4 and 6 Bruntsfield Avenue in Edinburgh is a terrace of six tenement blocks designed by Edward Calvert between 1887 and 1890. The buildings feature Scottish 17th century details and rise five storeys with five bays. They are constructed of cream sandstone, coursed and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Notable architectural features include full-height canted windows that are corbelled to square in triangular or shaped gable-headed dormers. The buildings also have T-section panelled and corniced wallhead stacks, which are corbelled from the second floor, and carved aprons on the second-floor windows, except for Nos 4 and 6. The reveals are chamfered, and there are roundel or diamond-shaped motifs along with horizontal ashlar and rubble banding on the wallhead stacks. Most of the doors are panelled, except for Nos 16 and 18, and they feature square border glazed fanlights.

On the southwest elevation facing Bruntsfield Avenue, each block has full-height canted windows in the outer bays and single windows in the central bays. There is a door to the common stair in the central bay, with a corbelled wallhead stack above. The fourth-floor windows have either shaped or pedimented dormer heads, except for Nos 16 and 18, where the fourth-floor windows flank the wallhead stack with a scrolled shoulder above. Notable exceptions include Nos 20, which has a first and second-floor cill course with diamond-shaped label-stops. Nos 4 and 6 feature paired doors off-centre in the bay to the left of centre, with a cill course on the first and second floors and incised lintels above the second-floor windows. The wallhead stack has moulded coping bracketed from above the second floor, and there are oval concave panels in the gabled dormer heads. Nos 8 and 10, as well as Nos 12 and 14, have paired doors off-centre in the bay to the right of centre, with one door in the bay to the left of centre. At ground level, there is a single window off-centre in the central bay. The wallhead stack for Nos 8 and 10 has moulded coping, while the coping is missing for Nos 10 and 12. The windows are plate glass timber sash and case, and the buildings have a slate mansard roof, wallhead, and mutual stacks, along with a moulded eaves gutter.

The interior was not seen in 1992. Low boundary walls and cast-iron railings remain at Nos 8, 12, 14a, and 18.