56, 58, 60 Broughton Street, Edinburgh

Thomas Bonnar, 1829-34. 4-storey and basement, 6-bay plain classical terraced tenement. Polished ashlar sandstone at principal floor; broached ashlar to floors above and basement. base course; band course between basement and principal floor; cornice at principal floor; corniced frieze at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Recessed windows at principal floor, with panelled aprons; architraved windows at 1st floor; projecting cills at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

Northeast (principal) elevation: recessed doorpieces with former 2-leaf, 4-panel timber doors and rectilinear-design rectangular fanlights, in bay to right of centre and in bays to outer left and right, at principal floor. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor, with lowered cills in bays to left of centre. Regular fenestration to floors above and basement. Glazed door in penultimate bay from left at basement. Flagged basement area. Double-faced clock suspended from decorative wrought-iron bracket, wall-hung below principal floor cornice, between 3rd and penultimate bay from left.

Northwest elevation: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (62-66 Broughton Street).

Southeast elevation: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (50-54A Broughton Street).

Rear elevation: not seen, 1998. Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Broached ashlar ridge stacks; coped, with circular cans.

Interiors: not seen, 1998.

Railings: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed and pineapple finials.