25 Walker Street, Edinburgh

Robert Brown, 1826-27. 12-bay terrace comprising unified façade of 2-storey attics and basements 3-bay classical townhouses with main-door and common stair flats behind; later ashlar attic storey to Nos. 25 and 27. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Sandstone ashlar, droved ashlar to basement, channelled ashlar to ground. Entrance plats oversailing basement. Band course at ground and 1st floors; string course at 1st floor between windows. Corniced eaves course; balustraded parapet to right. Timber 6-panel doors in square headed doorpieces with rectangular fanlights. Rectangular dormers to right. Cast-iron balconies on foliate brackets to 1st floor windows.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 4-storey. Regular coursed rubble with some long and short ashlar quoins. Advanced and recessed wall plane with some later additions. Ashlar rybats, lintels and sills to irregular fenestration, some with relieving arches.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows to left, 12-pane and 6-over 9-pane in sash and case windows to right. Double pitch M-section roof; grey slates. Corniced ashlar gable end stacks with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings above ashlar coping stone edging basement recess to street; spear headed finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods.