10, 11, 12, 13 Drumsheugh Street, Edinburgh

John Watherston and Sons, 1880-81. 4-storey (mansard attic to centre pavilion), Italianate tenement and shops, angled around corner with pilastered centrepiece and terminal bays; some later additions to shop fronts at ground floor. Sandstone ashlar; painted ashlar, timber and metal shopfronts; channelled ashlar pilasters to centre and terminal bays. Large consoles to centre and outer bays at ground floor with dentilled fascia, arched and consoled doorpieces. 4-light canted bays at 1st 2nd and 3rd floors to centre and terminal bays. Moulded cill courses. Consoled corniced eaves course with some decorative roundels. Round arched and triangular pedimented windows at 1st floor. Corniced 2nd floor windows with decorative entablature and brackets. Shouldered architraves at 3rd floor windows; small roundels to alternating window heads. Balustrade to centre section broken by 3 pedimented and finalled ashlar dormers.

Plate glass to ground floor shop fronts, some in timber some in metal frames. Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows to tenement. Steep double pitch M-section roof to centre section; shallow double pitch M-section roof to flanking blocks; grey slates. Corniced ashlar ridge and gable end stacks; modern clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.