153-163 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh

Thomas Gibson, circa 1880. 4-storey corner tenement block with Jacobean details; shops at ground floor. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; string cill course at 2nd floor; string course at 3rd floor; raised and lugged window surrounds; 3rd floor windows breaking eaves in stone-finialled predimented dormerheads; chamfered reveals; panelled doors.

S (WARRENDER PARK ROAD) elevation: 4-bay with polygonal angle tower to outer left. Shop windows alternating with doorways at ground. Full-height 4-light canted window in bay to outer right; steep pedimented tocentral lights of 3rd floor window, with facetted pyramidal roof behind; iron finial. Single windows in remaining bays; pedimented linked to wallhead stack (with arcaded moulding to cornice) over 2nd and 3rd bays. Blinded pilastered and depressed-arch panel between angle to outer left and 1st bay; bracketted and corbelled wallhead stack above. 4-light polygonal angle tower; ball-finialled barleysugar colonnettes between lights (2 ball finials missing); ball-finialled pediments to each light at 3rd floor; tall facetted pyramidal roof, minus brattishing. W ALVANLEY TERRACE elevation: 2-bay with angle tower to outer right (see above). Doorway in 2nd bay; single window above. Single windows in 1st bay. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stacks.

Interiors not seen 1991. Low saddleback wall to Alvanley Terrace.