7 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh

John Watherston and Sons, 1855-6. Pair of asymmetrical 4-bay and basement terraced houses, with plain classical details and single storey slightly advanced pilastered and corniced entrance block to right; boundary wall adjacent to E. Sandstone ashlar, channelled at ground floor. Banded base course; corniced string course incorporating doorpiece at single storey block to E; corniced and cavetto eaves course. Moulded architraved doorpieces, rectangular fanlights, rising to pedimented 1st floor window. 2-storey, 3-light canted bays at basement, ground and 1st floors. Corniced and pedimented tripartite windows to right-hand house (No. 7) at ground and 1st storeys; corniced tripartite and bipartite windows at 2nd floor also to right. 4, 3rd floor windows to No. 8; 5 3rd floor windows to No. 7, some advanced cills will small aprons, shouldered architraves.

E ELEVATION: 4-storeys with corniced single storey advanced entrance block to left fronted by further additional lower porch. 2-storey canted bay right. Squared coursed rubble with ashlar quoins. Some ashlar lintels, cills and long and short rybats. Irregular fenestration with tripartite window at 1st floor to left.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows; some 4-pane in timber sash and case to end (E) elevation. Double pitch M-section roof. Corniced ashlar ridge and gable end stacks with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings on ashlar coping stone edging basement recess to street. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALL: boundary wall to right enclosing garden from street; coursed squared rubble with ashlar copes.