46, 48 Home Street And 1, 3 Lochrin Place, Edinburgh

Dunn and Findlay, 1897. 4-storey and attic almost symmetrical tenement block with Jacobean detailing; shops at ground floor and flats above. Polished yellow sandstone ashlar. Cornice band between ground and 1st floor (egg and dart moulding to underside); cill courses at 1st and 2nd floors; eaves cornice. Windows in moulded surrounds, corniced at 1st floor, projecting cills at 3rd. Mansard roof, finialled, pyramidally-roofed central block and finialled slated ogee-roofed corner towers. Dormerheaded windows to attic (segmental pediments to single windows, piend roofs to stone-mullioned bipartites) above eaves cornice, and canted bays with scalloped parapets.

E (HOME STREET) ELEVATION: slightly advanced central block with entrance to tenement stair - timber panelled door with plate glass fanlight in depressed-arched moulded surround with carved Mannerist mask on key-block - in centre at ground, stone-mullioned tripartite windows at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. 5 flanking bays to left, 6 to right; bipartites to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors to outer right and left bays, with segmental-headed dormer above to left, piend-roofed to right; canted bays with tripartite dormers above in 2nd and 4th bays from left, 3rd and 5th bays from right, alternating with narrow bays with segmental-headed dormers to attic.

Entrances to corner shops in round-arched stop-chamfered surrounds with scrolled key consoles; swept to bowed 3-light windows at 1st and 2nd floors, polygonal at 3rd and attic; decorative carved detail between windows at attic level. Decorative moulded pilasters remain between some shops.

N (LOCHRIN PLACE) AND S (LOCHRIN BUILDINGS) ELEVATIONS: canted bays over shops to W, with piend-roofed bipartite dormers above. 3 bays to E: timber panelled doors to flats with plate glass fanlights in depressed-arched stop-chamfered surrounds; single and bipartite windows regularly disposed above, and segmental-pedimented dormers to attic.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Double-corniced stacks (some rebuilt) with circular cans at wallheads (to side elevations) and ridges. Cast-iron gutters and down pipes with some decorative hoppers.