Rothesay Hotel, 7, 8 And 9 Rothesay Place, Edinburgh

Peddie, Kinnear and Peddie, 1878-9; later alterations by Leadbetter Fairley and Reid 1927. Terrace comprising unified façade of 3-storey and basement Italianate townhouses with main-door and common stair flats behind. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Sandstone ashlar; droved ashlar at basement. Entrance platts oversailing basements. Banded base course. Consoled corniced eaves course. Moulded architraved doorpieces with rectangular fanlight. Tripartite windows at ground floor, slightly advanced. Moulded cill course at ground, 1st and 2nd floors, bracketed windows at ground floor. Corniced tripartite 1st floor windows, round arched with Corinthian columns; flanking pilasters and entablature. Architraved surrounds at 2nd floor. Stone balconies at 1st floor supported by deep stone brackets, with cast-iron railings.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows; some plate glass over 2-pane timber casement windows. Double pitch M-section roof. Corniced ashlar ridge and gable end stacks with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings on ashlar cope edging basement recess to street. Cast-iron rainwater goods.