26 Calton Hill, Edinburgh

Later 18th century. 3-storey and attic, 2 bays (3 bay to rear) tenement building on elevated site above street level. Random rubble with dressed margins. Regular fenestration.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: timber-panelled door with lozenge pattern letterbox fanlight to left bay. Canted tripartite timber dormer to roof.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: dormer to roof to right, canted tripartite timber dormer to left.

GLAZING etc: predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to side sections of tripartite dormers. Dormers have timber fascias, grey slate haffits and piend roofs. 2 rooflights to S elevation. Pitched roof; graded grey slates; stone skews and skewputts. Rendered gable-end stack with circular cans to E gable.

BOUNDARY WALLS: paved ramp leading to stone steps (modern handrails). High rubble retaining walls with stone copes flank steps; paved pathway to door, decorative cast iron railing flanking both sides. To rear, rubble wall to E and W; low rubble N wall, surmounted by decorative cast iron railings and gate.