36A Cumberland Street, Edinburgh

Thomas Bonnar, 1820. 4-storey and basement, 8-bay terraced tenement. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed chanelled rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal and 1st floors; windows at 1st floor with raised margins and cornices; cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; continual cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Doors and windows of principal floor in square-headed recesses.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-panel timber common stair door, with decorative rectangular fanlight, in 4th bay from left at principal floor; 4-panel timber doors with plate glass rectangular fanlight in 3rd bay from left, and with decorative rectangular fanlight in 3rd bay from right. Windows in recesses in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement. Flagged basement area.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (88-102 Dundas Street).

S ELEVATION: predominantly regular-coursed squared rubble gable, becoming 36A Cumberland Street; windows at centre right to all floors, and small lights at centre left, at principal, 1st and 2nd floors. Door at centre right at basement. Flagged basement area.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge stacks, regular-coursed squared rubble gablehead stack with broached quoins; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple finials.