27 Danube Street, Edinburgh

John Webster, (designed MacGibbon & Ross), 1883-4. Prominent 4-storey and basement, irregular 4-bay corner tenement with full height canted bay to N (St Bernard's Crescent) elevation. Sandstone ashlar, channelled at ground floor. Entrance platts oversailing basement area recess. Banded base course; band course at 1st floor; banded cill course at 2nd floor; corniced eaves course. Inset doorways with boarded timber doors and rectangular fanlights.

N (ST. BERNARD'S CRESCENT) ELEVATION: roughly 4 bays. Bi-partite windows to outer left with broad stone mullions. Full-height 3-light canted bay to outer right, flanking pier with blind panel between 2nd and 3rd floors.

W (DANUBE STREET) ELEVATION: roughly 4-bay, slightly angled; pier to outer left with carved panel at 3rd floor to left with initial 'JW'. Bi-partite windows to outer right with broad stone mullions.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: coursed rubble with tooled ashlar rybats, lintels and cills. Roughly regular fenestration.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Double-pitched roof; grey slates. Corniced ashlar wallhead stacks with later corniced and harled section above; some clay cans. Cast-iron railings edging basement area recess to street; incorporating some decorative cast-iron lamp standards with large bowl shades.

INTERIOR: (selection of interiors seen 2010) classical decorative scheme, characterised by well detailed cornicing to principal rooms and hallway. Some marble fireplaces. Working window shutters. Later conversion to flats, including some later subdivision.