36 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh

36 Castle Terrace in Edinburgh is a three-storey and attic tenement block designed by Sir James Gowans between 1868 and 1870. The building features a mansard roof and has a distinctive appearance, projecting from the street line on the right. It is constructed of polished ashlar, which has been painted at the ground level.

The façade includes string courses that separate the floors and stone-bracketed eaves. The windows are adorned with decorative bracketed surrounds, and the first-floor windows have serrated Moorish lintels. The second-floor windows push up against the bracketed eaves below the dormers. The steeply-pitched gabled dormers have pentagonal windows and stone-bracketed eaves, with the central dormer displaying the date 1868.

The entrance is located in the centre bay and features a modern glazed two-leaf timber door set within a round-arched surround that has serrated decoration in the spandrels. The centre bay also includes tripartite windows with decorative stone mullions on the first and second floors, as well as at the ground level in the flanking bays.

The building has plate glass in timber sash and case windows, and the roof is covered with graded grey slates. Additional details include a moulded stone ridge, fluted ashlar stalks with scalloped, bracketed cornices, and decorative octagonal cans with serrated tops.