4 Eton Terrace, Edinburgh

1 Eton Terrace in Edinburgh is a three-storey, basement, and attic townhouse built in 1855 by John Tait, featuring later additions in the attic. This extensive terrace showcases an Italianate classical style with three bays and a layout of alternating recessed and advanced bays (arranged 6-5-6-3-6-6-6-3), situated on a ground that slopes to the northeast. The left end of the terrace includes a canted six-bay block (No. 3). The building is constructed from sandstone ashlar, with a channelled ground floor. The entrance platts extend over the basement area recess facing the street. Notable architectural details include a banded base course, a banded cill course at the first floor, and consoled balconies with geometric cast-iron balustrades. The second floor features a moulded cill course and corniced and dentilled eaves. The doorways are architraved, predominantly featuring timber two-leaf, six-panel doors with rectangular fanlights, some displaying a geometric glazing pattern. The first-floor windows have moulded architraves with triangular pediments, while the recessed bays are corniced. The second-floor windows also have deep bracketed cills. At No. 10, there are pedimented ashlar dormers, along with further alterations to some attics.

The northeast (rear) elevation consists of coursed squared rubble with some droved ashlar quoins, rybats cills, and lintels, featuring roughly regular fenestration, including some full-height three-light canted bays and later single-storey extensions.

The windows predominantly have an eight-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case style, with twelve panes at the basement and second floor. The building has a double-pitched roof covered in grey slates, with corniced ashlar ridge stacks topped with octagonal clay cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Additionally, there are cast-iron railings surrounding the basement area recess facing the street.

Inside, the decorative classical scheme is highlighted by intricate plasterwork, large drawing rooms, and stone stairs with well-detailed balustrades, all topped by large cupolas. Some parts of the building have been converted into flats.