10-12 Broughton Street, Edinburgh

1. 3-storey and basement, 6-bay terrace, formerly pair of 3-bay classical houses. Polished ashlar sandstone; broached ashlar at basement. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; cill course at 1st floor; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Bracketed projecting cills at 1st floor; projecting cills at 2nd floor. Polished ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced paired doorpieces to centre bays, comprising engaged fluted Doric columns flanking 6-panel timber doors with rectilinear-pattern rectangular fanlights, linked by continuous entablature with wreath-ornamented frieze and cornice. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above and basement. Public house at basement (The Basement). Flagged basement area.

SE ELEVATION: 3-bay; coupled giant order Ionic pilasters flanking centre bay at 1st and 2nd floors. Blind windows except to right at 1st and 2nd floors. Paired stacks surmounting centre bay and linked by coped parapet.

NW ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (14-22A Broughton Street).

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered wallhead stacks; corniced, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998; evidence of working panelled shutters.

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