198, 200, 202, 204, 206 Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh

This is a substantial five-story corner tenement block built around 1890, designed in the style of George Washington Browne. Constructed primarily of cream sandstone ashlar, it occupies the corner of Bruntsfield Place and Montpelier Park in Edinburgh. The ground floor features shops with a polished marble base to the corner shop. A cornice runs above the shops, and a parapet sits level with the sills of the first-floor windows. Cill courses are present at the first, second, and third floors, with a string course above the second floor. A heavy cornice defines the eaves. The corner tower is a prominent feature, and canted windows have chamfered reveals. First-floor windows are architraved with scrolled semi-circular pediments, while the third-floor windows are lugged. The fourth-floor canted windows have panelled rectangular aprons. Dormer and gableheads are adorned with scrolled open pediments, and the ground-floor windows feature keystoned, depressed arches with ashlar mullions.

The southwest (Montpelier Park) elevation is five bays wide, including the corner tower. A four-story, canted angle bay with windows to each floor and a finialled pyramidal roof rises from the corner. Within this bay, a shop door is set within a chamfered corner, flanked by large blank rectangular panels. To the left, a two-bay arched stone shopfront is adjacent to a plain rectangular bay, and a narrow shopfront has a recessed door. A blank wall-plane is set to the left of the corner tower, with a corniced L-shaped wallhead stack corbelled from the second floor. Single and bipartite windows are incorporated throughout the elevation, with a fourth-floor dormerheaded window. The southeast (Bruntsfield Place) elevation is six bays wide, excluding the corner tower. It features a two-bay arched shopfront, with an adjoining arched, moulded doorway leading to the common stair. Three plain shopfronts are situated to the right (although these are now modern replacements, retaining two pilasters); a canted bay with a finialled pyramidal roof is positioned to the outer right. The two inner right bays rise above the eaves at the fourth floor, forming a gablehead with a coped apex chimney. Single windows are apparent except for the bipartite windows at the first and second floors to the right. Dormerheaded windows are located at the fourth floor of the outer left bay.

The windows are largely plate glass timber sash and case, with four-pane sashes in the central windows of the corner tower. The roof is a green slate mansard roof with lead flashings, along with wallhead and gable stacks and mutual coped stacks. Ornamental cast-iron gutter heads are present. The interior was not inspected in 1992.