20, 22, 24, 26 Morningside Road, Edinburgh

This building, located at 20, 22, 24, and 26 Morningside Road in Edinburgh, dates from around 1880 and is a four-storey and attic corner tenement with shops on the ground floor. It features a cream sandstone façade with stugged ashlar on the front and northern elevation, polished dressings on the ground floor (which is painted), and squared and snecked rubble at the rear. The design includes a continuous cornice above the ground floor, a cill course at the second floor, an eaves cornice, and raised margins around the lintels of the first and second floor windows. The windows are fitted with ashlar mullions, and there are round-headed single dormers.

On the eastern elevation facing Morningside Road, the building has five bays, including a curved corner bay on the outer right. The shopfronts on the ground floor have been significantly altered, with No 22 featuring a replacement shopfront. No 26 retains remnants of its original front, which includes stop-chamfered reveals and a columnar mullion with a carved capital that is partly obscured by a modern fascia. There is a replacement door leading to the common doorway at No 24. The curved corner bay has a stop-chamfered doorway, and all floors above feature bipartite windows, with the first and second floor windows slightly recessed. There is a cill band course at the second floor, and a bipartite pilastered and pedimented dormer window is flanked by short ashlar balustrades and wallhead stacks above, topped with a conical finialled roof at the back. The outer left side has bipartite windows, while the remaining bays contain single windows. A wallhead stack is located at the center, and there are three dormers.

The northern elevation consists of a broad single bay with a small secondary door and two rectangular shop windows at the ground floor, with single windows above. There is a bipartite dormer flanked by wallhead stacks.

The western (rear) elevation has single windows, a broad wallhead stack at the center, and four dormers.

The building features timber sash and case windows, with plate glass glazing at the front and a mix of 8-pane and replacement windows at the rear. The slate roof has a mansard design at the rear and includes metal flashings, along with five wallhead stacks, most of which have been rebuilt and rendered. The interior was not seen in 1992.