10 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh

John Chesser, 1860; alterations to No. 8 by Robert Lorimer, 1893; later attic additions. Extensive terrace (crescented at Nos. 11-20) comprising 3-storey and basement, 2-bay Free Renaissance townhouses in alternating pairs of advanced and recessed blocks. Prominent 2-storey, 4-light canted bays with balustraded parapets (to centre on recessed pairs; flanking on advanced pairs). Sandstone ashlar. Entrance platts oversailing basements. Banded base course; banded cill course at 1st floor, moulded at 2nd floor (moulded to canted bays); moulded string course at 2nd floor. Consoled corniced eaves course with balustraded parapet (some parapets now missing). Moulded architraved doorpieces with rectangular fanlights and narrow sidelights; consoled balconies above with cast-iron railings. Moulded architraved surrounds to windows at canted bay. Moulded architraved 1st floor windows with fielded panel and bracketed cornice. Moulded architraved windows at 2nd floor (tripartite above canted bays). Various later dormers at attic; some later ashlar attic storeys.

S (END) ELEVATION: 3 bays, with 2-storey canted bay to right (S) with balustraded parapet. Balustraded parapet integrated with prominent wallhead stack to centre. Moulded architraved ground floor windows with consoled balconies and cast-iron railings. Bracketed and pedimented 1st floor windows. Moulded architraved 2nd floor windows (bi-partite above canted bay) additional narrow rectangular window to right (S) of centre. Moulded architraved window, with stepped string course above, to centre of wallhead stack.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: 5 storeys; coursed squared rubble with some droved ashlar quoins, rybats, cills and lintels. Roughly regular fenestration with some paired windows at 1st and 2nd floors. Some boundary walls to rear; many integrated with 2-storey mews buildings and some later garages fronting onto Belgrave Crescent Lane.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Corniced ashlar ridge and wallhead stacks with octagonal clay cans. Cast-iron railings on ashlar coping stone edging basement area to street. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: classical decorative scheme, characterised by intricate plasterwork and large drawing rooms. Large entrance vestibules with cornicing and some pilasters, predominantly timber stairs with carved newel posts, topped by large cupolas with decorative plasterwork beneath. Highly decorative plasterwork and some large marble fire surrounds to ground floor and to 1st floor drawing rooms. Later alterations to No. 8 by Robert Lorimer in 1893 for Lady Chalmers. Later conversion to flats throughout (2009).