16 Hillside Crescent, 15A, Edinburgh

John Chesser, 1880s. Long classical near-symmetrical 4-storey tenement range of common stair and main door flats; to Hillside Crescent elevation, 14-bay central section with advanced 8-bay (7-bay to ground floor) pavilion to left and advanced 8-bay (7-bay to ground floor) pavilion to right; 5-bay elevation to Hillside Street; 4-storey (with basement window to far right), 5-bay elevation to Wellington Street. Polished ashlar (coursed rubble with dressed margins to rear). Base course; dividing band between ground and 1st floors; moulded cill course to 1st floor; cill band to 2nd floor; modillioned cornice dividing 2nd and 3rd floors (to Hillside Crescent elevation only); cill band to 3rd floor; eaves cornice; blocking course. Predominantly regular fenestration; architraves to ground (Hillside Street and Wellington Street elevation only), 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor windows (excluding canted bays); aprons to windows to 1st floor.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th bays from left to ground floor, timber-panelled door (access to common stair) with letterbox fanlight, framed by doorpiece of 2 engaged fluted Greek Doric columns supporting entablature and pediment breaking 1st floor cill course; each pedimented doorway flanked to left and right by 3-bay groupings comprising narrow windows with extended cills to inner bays, timber-panelled doors (access to main door flat) with letterbox fanlight, framed by Greek Doric pilasters with slightly projecting entablature above to centre bays and windows with recessed surrounds and aprons to outer bays.

W (HILLSIDE STREET) ELEVATION: to far left, 4-storey and basement canted bay; tripartite windows with stop-chamfered mullions. Blind windows to far right bay (excluding ground floor). Corniced 1st floor windows. Returned modillioned cornice below 3rd floor cill course to far right.

E (WELLINGTON STREET) ELEVATION: to far right, 4-storey and basement canted bay; tripartite windows with stop-chamfered mullions. Blind windows to far left bay. Corniced 1st floor windows. Returned modillioned cornice below 3rd floor cill course to far left.

GLAZING etc: plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Pitched roof to front and rear elevations with flat or near-flat section to centre; graded grey slates; stone skews and skewputts. To Hillside Crescent elevation, 9 ridge stacks; to Hillside Street elevation, 2 shouldered wallhead stacks, 1 gablehead stack to far left; to Wellington Street elevation, 2 shouldered wallhead stacks (rendered to right); 2 ashlar ridge stacks; stacks predominantly corniced ashlar with octangular cans.