16-18 Brunton Place, Edinburgh

Designed by John Chesser, built by Laurie and Scott, 1883-1888. Long classical 4-storey tenement range of common stair and main door flats; to Brunton Place elevation, 16-bay (14-bay to ground floor) central section with advanced 7-bay (6-bay to ground floor) pavilion to left and advanced 8-bay (7-bay to ground floor) pavilion to right; quadrant corner with tripartite fenestration leading to 5-bay Brunton Terrace elevation. 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 (Brunton Place elevation only); cill band to 3rd floor; eaves cornice; blocking course. Predominantly regular fenestration; architraves to ground (Brunton Terrace elevation only), 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor windows (excluding canted bay; aprons to windows to 1st floor.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th 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 (BRUNTON TERRACE) ELEVATION: bipartite windows to outer left bay; to centre, canted bay with stop-chamfered mullions dividing windows. To ground floor, between 1st and 2nd bays from left, timber-panelled door with rectangular fanlight. Corniced 1st floor windows. Returned modillioned cornice below 3rd floor cill course to far right. To far right to 1st floor, raised panel bearing the date 1886; to far right to 2nd floor, blank raised panel.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: single bay elevation. Snecked squared rubble with tooled margins and long and short quoins.

GLAZING etc: plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Half pitched roof to front and side elevations with to rear, series of parallel piend-ended roofs at right-angles to principal elevation; graded grey slates; stone skews and skewputts. To Brunton Place elevation: 7 mutual ridge stacks, predominantly ashlar; 1st, 2nd and 3rd stacks to outer left rendered; to Wellington Street elevation, 2 shouldered rendered wallhead stacks; to far left, 1 rendered gablehead stack; to E elevation, 2 rendered wallhead stacks; all stacks corniced with mixture of octangular and circular cans.