4 Howe Street, Edinburgh

6, 8, 10 Howe Street is a terraced tenement building in Edinburgh, designed by Robert Reid and William Sibbald between 1802 and 1808. This four-storey structure with a basement features an 11-bay façade made of broached ashlar sandstone, characterized by V-jointed rustication at the principal floor. It has a band course at the first floor, cill courses at the first and second floors, projecting cills for the third-floor windows, and a cornice with a blocking course at the third floor. The entrance is accessed via ashlar steps and an entrance platts that overhang the basement.

The principal elevation includes a centrally located common stair door at the principal floor, which is flush-beaded and topped with a radial rectangular fanlight. To the left of the door are shop fronts, while to the right are windows, including a flush-beaded door in the third bay from the right with a plate glass rectangular fanlight. The upper floors display regular fenestration. The outer left features a three-bay shop front with a dentilled cornice and a glazed door with a plate glass rectangular fanlight and plate glass windows. In bays five, six, and seven from the outer left, there are two pilastraded shop fronts with a part-glazed door and a two-leaf door, each accompanied by plate glass rectangular fanlights and flanking plate glass windows. The basement has plate glass and multi-pane glazed windows for Nos 4A and 6B, a glazed door for No 8A, and a three-bay corniced and pilastered shop front for No 10, which includes a two-leaf door and plate glass windows.

The northeast elevation adjoins another terrace, while the southeast elevation also adjoins a terrace, both of which are described in separate listings. The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate M-roof, and a variety of ridge and rendered gablehead stacks, all capped with circular cans. It has cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interiors were not seen in 1997, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters. The property is complemented by ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have decorative balusters and finials, along with cast-iron lamps featuring glass globes.