2A-4 Albany Street, Edinburgh

Thomas Bonnar, 1815. 4-storey and basement, 5-bay terraced tenement on corner site. Broached ashlar sandstone; polished ashlar at principal floor and basement. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; projecting cills to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled timber door, with multi-pane rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor, flanked by pair of 2-bay shop fronts, comprising plate glass windows, flanked by panelled timber doors with plate glass rectangular fanlights to outer left and right; regular fenestration to floors above, and at basement.

W (DUBLIN STREET) ELEVATION: regular fenestration to all floors, with blind windows in bay to outer right and penultimate bay from right, at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. Basement comprising 5-bay restaurant to left, with glazed door and plate glass windows; 2-bay shop front to right, with glazed door and plate glass window.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (11 Dublin Street).

E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (6 and 6A Albany Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble ridge, wallhead and gablehead stacks, rendered shouldered wallhead stack; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed balusters and urn finials.