26, 28, 30 Dublin Street, Edinburgh

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century, with later shop front addition. 4-storey and basement, 7-bay terraced tenement. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor; bull-faced rustication at basement. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; cill courses at 1st and 2nd floor; projecting cills to 3rd floor windows; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Architraved windows at 1st and 2nd floors; windows at 1st floor with cornices. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-panel timber common stair door with 6-pane rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor, flanked by advanced shop front to left, comprising recessed 2-leaf glazed door, cast-iron gate and plate glass windows, chamfered arrises, dentilled cornice with brattishing; round-arched doorpiece in 3rd bay from right, with 4-panel timber door, radial semicircular fanlight; windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, with window guards in bays at 3rd floor, except at centre.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (32-38 Dublin Street).

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (8 and 8A-20 Abercromby Place).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar ridge and gablehead stacks; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed balusters and urn finials.