30-32 Castle Street, Edinburgh

1792-4; subsequent alterations. 4-storey and basement, with 2 later attic floors, 6-bay classical tenement with main door flat. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Channelled pilaster strips frame elevation and common stair bay to left; band courses above each floor, mutuled cornice. Common stair, No 30, with architraved doorpiece and cornice; modern timber radiating fanlight. No 32 (5 bays) with pilastered doorpiece at centre; fluted frieze and decorative metal fanlight (applied to rear of plate glass), 2-leaf panelled doors. 2 stepped back tiers of full-width (to 5 right bays) slate-hung (green slate) attic storeys, circa 1900; each with window at centre flanked by canted windows.

Timber sash and case windows; 12-pane to ground, 1st floor and stair; 4-pane to 2nd floor and attics. Rendered stack to left; grey slates.

INTERIOR: fine arcaded entrance Hall (2 bays deep) with circular ceilings supported on pendentives; modern plate glass screen; inner hall with straight stair to basement. SE room with pilaster screen and windows, panelled dado and plain chimneypiece; NE room with panelled dado. Single storey and basement extension to rear. 1st floor flat with arched hallway with swagged frieze; front rooms with panelled dados; swagged frieze to NW room. 2nd floor flat with panelled dado and 19th century chimneypiece to SE room; swagged overmantle to NW room.