39, 41, 43 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh

Dated 1881. 4-storey corner tenement on sloping site with Scots Baronial details; shops at ground floor. Squared and snecked pink sandstone with contrasting polished dressings. Cornice over shopfronts; corbel table at 3rd floor, stepped down and machicolated to form hoods to 2nd floor windows in bays flanking corner; string course at 3rd floor.

S (WARRENDER PARK ROAD) ELEVATION: 5-bay including angle bay. Plate glass shopfronts (painted stonework) at ground, pedimented doorway at angle. 3-storey canted window, corbelled to square at crowstepped gablehead; pedimented blind window set in gablehead; gablet crowsteps and skewputts. Advanced and canopied bipartite window at 1st floor in 3rd bay; bipartite windows above; semi-circular pediment. Bipartite windows in 1st bay; crowstepped pediment linked to wallhead stack. Advanced single windows at 1st floor in 2nd and 4th bays; single windows above; pediments to 3rd floor windows. Pedimented cipher panel (GM) at 1st floor between 4th and angle bays.

E (MARCHMONT ROAD) ELEVATION: 5-bay. Shopfronts stepped down from left to right on sloping site; main door at centre; panelled door plate glass fanlight. 2-light angled bay above shops to outer right; facetted pyramidal roof; iron finial. Bipartite windows in 1st bay; crowstepped gable with corbelled stack above. Bipartite windows at 1st and 2nd floors in 3rd bay; semi-circular pediment to single window at 3rd floor. Single windows in remianing bays; pediments to 3rd floor windows. Pedimented date panel (1881) between angle and 1st bays. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stacks to S and E and coped mutual stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1991.