7 Carlton Terrace, Edinburgh

William Playfair, designed 1821-1825, built from late 1820s-mid 1830s. Part of long hairpin-curved terrace of 19 classical town houses; Nos 1-4 and 14-19, rectangular-plan houses with straight 3-bay front elevations; Nos 5-13, wedge-plan houses with curved 4-bay front elevations; predominantly 2-storey and basement with balustraded parapet; panelled parapets to Nos 1, 14 and 17. Droved ashlar to basements; polished ashlar to upper floors; predominantly coursed squared rubble with droved margins to side and rear elevations. Base course to basements; dividing band between basement and ground floors and ground and 1st floors; modillioned eaves cornice to front elevations, eaves band to rear elevations. Raised door surrounds with consoled cornices. Regular fenestration; architraved and corniced windows with panelled aprons to ground floor; architraved windows with cast-iron balconnettes to 1st floor.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to basement, timber-panelled door with 4-light fanlight beneath platt; windows to remaining bays. To ground floor, to 3rd bay from left, platt overarching basement recess leading to timber-panelled door with narrow margin lights and rectangular fanlight. Dormer window to left to roof.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay elevation; 2-storey piend-roofed advanced bay to centre.

GLAZING etc: predominantly 12-pane glazing; 15-pane glazing to 1st floor to front elevation; plate glass to ground floor to front elevation; glazing predominantly in timber sash and case windows. Double-pitched roof with central valley; graded grey slate; stone skews and skewputts. To front, ashlar wall-head stack with canted front to left, rendered stack to right; to rear, rendered stack to left; ashlar stack to right; all stacks corniced with octangular and circular cans. Some cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: to front, edging basement recess and platt, stone coping surmounted by cast-iron railings with dog bars, spear-head finials and distinctive circled border; wrought iron lamp standard to left of platt. To rear, forming boundary of garden, random rubble walls with predominantly flat coping.