18, 20, 22 Howe Street, Edinburgh

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1802-8, with 1891 reconstructions by John Kinross. 3-storey, double attic and basement, 7-bay near-symmetrical terrace tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication to principal floor. Band course between 1st and 2nd floors and 2nd and 3rd floors; cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; cornice at 3rd floor, returned and terminated at corners.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: comprising window centred at principal floor, flanked by pair of doors. Advanced 1934 bowed doorpiece to left, No 20, by John Jerdan, comprising stone flight with flanking walls, architraved surround, small pane rectangular fanlight, with blind frieze and cornice above. Round-arched doorpiece in penultimate bay to right, No 22, comprising multi-panelled 2-leaf door, and deep quasi-radial round-arched fanlight, accessing shop, with advanced and corniced shop window in bay to outer right, plate glass, capped by horizontal panel of decorative glazing. 2-bay pilastered shop front ot outer left, comprising 6-panel, 2-leaf door in penultimate bay from left, plate glass window to left. Regular fenestration to floors above.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate list description (24 Howe Street).

S (JAMAICA STREET) ELEVATION: 4-bay elevation, predominantly random rubble with polished dressings, comprising modern 2-leaf vertically boarded timber door. plate glass rectangular fanlight, in penultimate bay from left, flanked by plate glass windows; plate glass window in bay to outer right. Irregular fenestration to floors above, including windows in penultimate bay to left at all floors, and blind windows in bays to outer right at 1st and 2nd floors, and to outer left at 2nd floor.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate double Mansard roof. 2-tiered box dormers regularly spaced. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Gablehead stacks, coped with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997.