23, 25, 27, 29 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh

David Clunas (adapting a design by David Cousin and John Lessels - see Notes). 1870-71. 4-storey and attic, 4 bay, retail and residential tenement situated on prominent corner site forming part of an integrated run on E side of Blackfriars Street. Squared, coursed rubble with stugged sandstone dressings. Chamfered window margins. Shops to ground; 2-leaf timber door to canted SW angle bay, corbelled out over door. Above, projecting ashlar corbelled canted bay rising to corbelled oriel window at 2nd floor. Moulded cill course at 3rd storey. Irregular arrangement of dormers breaking eaves; 2 with 2-storey wall head gables, the second with lugged, crow-stepped pediment dormers. Timber, pedimented attic dormers above, set within pitch of roof. Broad crow-stepped gable to S elevation with further 2-storey wall head gable to right.

4-pane glazing to timber sash and case windows. Graded, grey Scottish slate. Broad coped ashlar stacks; clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.