113 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

1784-90; later alterations at ground and attic. 3-storey on raised basement and sub-basement with mansard attic classical tenement on corner site. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Long and short quoins at corner; corniced shops with large windows at basement. Blind balustraded parapet.

HANOVER STREET ELEVATION: broad irregular 4-bay gable rebuilt as full attic (consoles supporting stack) with broad 2-bay wing to S with mansard; 2 corniced and architraved doorpieces with multi-pane fanlights (lozenge glazing to No 117); right bay with corniced shopfront and bipartite windows at 2nd floor and attic.

QUEEN STREET ELEVATION: 4-bay; shop at basement; mansard with pair of bipartite windows flanking tiny bipartite with diamond glazing.

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass at ground, 12-pane at 1st floor, mixed sashes at 2nd floor and attic. Ashlar coped skews; ashlar stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: No 117 (ground floor flat) with pilastered inner doorway and round-headed fanlight with teardrop glazing; former Dining Room in corner with panelled dado and black slate chimneypiece; former Drawing Room to Queen Street with veined white marble chimneypiece and panelled dado; blocked archway formerly gave access to current shop space to S. Common stair with glazed tiles; wrought-iron banister at rebuilt attic level with glazed front doors and fanlights. Basement at Nos 117a -121 contains original ranges, &c (see below).

RAILINGS: cast-iron railings to Queen Street and steps, latter with urn finials.