29 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh

29 Castle Terrace in Edinburgh is a four-storey, attic and basement tenement block designed by Sir James Gowans between 1868 and 1870. The building features a distinctive mansard roof and showcases a blend of architectural styles, including Moorish influences. It is constructed of polished ashlar stone and includes string courses that separate the floors, along with stone bracketed eaves.

The third floor is marked by round-arched windows that push up against the bracketed eaves beneath the dormers. Decorative bracketed surrounds frame the windows. The ground floor has projecting canted bays with Serliana arches, tripartite windows adorned with decorative stone mullions, and serrated Moorish lintels above. The steeply-pitched gabled dormers have stone bracketed eaves and are flanked by smaller hooded dormers in the attic.

Access to the building is via stone steps leading to a basement area, which is covered by a plat. The entrance features a timber panelled door with a tripartite fanlight above, flanked by sidelights. The windows are fitted with plate glass in timber sash and case frames, and the roof is covered with graded grey slates. The building has a moulded stone ridge and fluted ashlar stalks with scalloped, bracketed cornices, as well as decorative octagonal cans with serrated tops.

The boundary wall is low and made of ashlar stone, topped with decorative cast-iron railings and stone piers that mark the entrances.