17, 19, 21 India Street, Edinburgh

17, 19, and 21 India Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey and basement, eight-bay near-symmetrical tenement built in 1823 by Traquair Dobson. The building features broached sandstone ashlar with channeling at the principal floor. It has a cill course at the first and second floors, a band course at the principal floor, and a blocking course. The entrance includes ashlar steps and platts that oversail the basement.

On the west elevation, there is a flush-panelled common stair door positioned to the right of the center, along with flush-panelled doors in the third bays from both the right and left, each with rectangular fanlights. The remaining bays on the principal floor contain windows, while the floors above exhibit regular fenestration. The third floor has contemporary cast-iron balconies in four bays to the left. The basement area is flagged, with coped broached retaining walls and vertically boarded timber doors leading to the cellars.

The south elevation, which returns onto Jamaica Street, is constructed of broached rubble and features windows at the center on all floors.

The building predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a grey slate M-roof. It includes cast-iron rainwater goods, a rendered ridge stack at the center, a rendered gablehead stack to the north, and an ashlar gablehead stack to the south, all coped and featuring circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1997, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters. The railings and lamps consist of ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings featuring fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple finials, along with cast-iron railing-mounted lamps that have glass globes.