125 George Street, Edinburgh

Circa 1785; additions to rear Robert Matheson, 1856, and George Morham, 1898, removed and rebuilt in 1980s. 3-storey, attic and basement, 4-bay former terraced classical house with large modern brick extension to rear. Droved cream ashlar sandstone. Ashlar basement. Ground floor with square cut rustication; to right, steps oversailing basement to arched tripartite doorpiece with decorative semicircular metal fanlight framed by Roman Doric pilasters and cornice. 1st floor with moulded cill course and band course above. Cornice. 3 modern canted piend-roofed dormers.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped mutual skews and stone stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: entrance Hall with simple enriched ceiling, former stove niche, decorative corniced overdoor to stairhall (replacement door), set of fine plaster figure panels on walls and slapping to former Dining Room; enriched panelled fanlight arch. Cantilevered stone stair with quarter landings and plain square banisters; upper walls enriched with trophy and musical panels, frieze with festoons and rosettes, and diamond paned frieze to skylight; plaster decoration at 1st floor landing (probably 19th century); corniced shaped overdoors with medallions; swagged frieze to cornice. Former Drawing Room unseen 1995.