19, 21 Dundas Street, Edinburgh

This is an early 19th-century tenement on a corner site, designed by Robert Reid and William Sibbald. It is four storeys and has a basement, forming part of a terrace on Dundas Street in Edinburgh. The building is constructed of broached ashlar sandstone, with painted V-jointed rustication on the principal floor and painted broached ashlar at basement level. Horizontal band courses separate the basement from the principal floor and the principal floor from the first. A cornice is present at the second floor, which continues as a band course on the north elevation. A string course and blocking course are located at the third floor. Ashlar steps and oversailing entrance platts lead to the basement level.

The west (principal) elevation has nine-panel flush-panelled timber doors with a blind rectangular fanlight in the penultimate bay from the right at principal floor level. There is also a two-leaf panelled timber entrance door with a rectangular fanlight, providing access to a restaurant (Kweelin Cantonese Restaurant) at principal floor level, alongside a two-leaf, six-panel timber door and window to the outer right. The remaining bays have regular fenestration at principal floor and the floors above. A blind window is centrally positioned on the third floor, while the window sills are lowered at the outer left and right. The basement level also has lowered window sills.

The north (Northumberland Street) elevation features a four-bay shop front at basement level (No 34), with a two-leaf glazed timber door and three-pane rectangular fanlight in the penultimate bay from the right, and windows in the remaining bays. To the left, there is a two-bay public house at basement level (The Wally Dug), which includes a panelled timber door to the right and a multi-pane window to the left. Regular fenestration is found on the floors above, with a blind window in the penultimate bay from the right on all floors, and a blind window and lowered window sills in two bays to the left at the third floor.

The south elevation adjoins a separate terrace listed at 15-17A Dundas Street. The east elevation adjoins another terrace listed at 28-30A Northumberland Street.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows are present throughout. The roof is covered in grey slate and incorporates cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered and shouldered wallhead stacks are centred on the principal and north elevations, with a rendered gablehead stack to the east, all coped and featuring circular cans.

Interior inspection was not possible in 1997, but evidence suggests the presence of working panelled shutters.

Ashlar copes support cast-iron railings with predominantly spear-headed balusters and urn finials.