21-23 Howe Street, Edinburgh

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1802. 4-storey and basement, 6-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal and 1st floors; cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 6-panel timber common-stair door , blind rectangular fanlight, in 3rd bay from left; former door in penultimate bay from left; plate glass shop windows in remaining bays, blind window in penultimate bay from right. Regular fenestration to floors above, with blind windows in penultimate bay from right. Balconies spanning bays flanking common stair door. 2-bay shop front to outer left at basement, comprising door to right, plate glass window to left. 3-bay shop front to right comprising door at centre, flanked by plate glass windows.

S ELEVATION: 5-bay elevation, becoming 71 and 75 Northumberland Street; comprising round-arched doorpiece centred at principal floor, with 2-leaf glazed door with plate glass semicircular fanlight, centred at principal floor, flanked by plate glass windows with plate glass semicircular fanlights; regular fenestration to floors above, with blind windows in penultimate bay from left, at 1st and 3rd floors.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered wallhead stack, random rubble gablehead stack with broached quoins; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997.

RAILINGS: iron railings.