79, 81, 83, 85 Dundas Street, Edinburgh

Thomas Bonnar, 1820. 4-storey and basement, 8-bay terraced tenement, with 4th storey as wallhead attic. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; projecting cills to bays at 1st floor; cill course at 2nd floor; cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 9-panel timber common stair door in 4th bay from right at principal floor, with glazed upper panels, and decorative rectangular fanlight; 9-panel timber doors with plate glass rectangular fanlights in 3rd bays from left and right. Regular fenestration to remaining bays at principal floor, and to floors above and basement.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (87-97A Dundas Street).

S CUMBERLAND STREET ELEVATION: coursed rubble gable;predominantly single bay, becoming 34B Cumberland Street, 4-bay basement comprising 6-panel, flush-beaded timber door with 3-pane rectangular fanlight in penultimate bay from left; regular fenestration to remaining bays; windows centred at first floors above.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: coursed rubble, regular fenestration.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows; window guards in bays to left and 3rd from left at 1st floor, and in 3 bays to left at 3rd floor. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble ridge and gablehead stacks, with broached ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and St George's cross finials.