53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65 Dundas Street, Edinburgh

Thomas Bonnar, 1820. 4-storey and basement, 9-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 1st and 2nd floor windows; cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled timber common stair door centred at principal floor, with blind rectangular fanlight; 6-panel timber door with diamond-paned rectangular fanlight in 3rd bay from left; 4-bay former Royal Bank of Scotland (No 53, Braemore Property Management) to right at principal floor, with flat-roofed corniced porch advanced in bay to outer right at principal floor, comprising recessed round-arched doorpiece, with panelled timber door and radial semicircular fanlight. Basement shop to outer left (No 65, Unicorn Antiques), with 5-pane plate glass window, and recessed glazed door.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (67-77 Dundas Street).

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (2-42A Great King Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble ridge and gablehead stacks; coped, with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with balusters and finials.