123-125 Warrender Park Road, Marchmont, Edinburgh

Possibly Thomas Gibson, circa 1880. 4-storey, corner tenement with Scots Baronial details and corner tower, forming junction of terraces; No 123 subdivided to form ground floor and basement flats, early 1970s. Coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; string course at 3rd floor; eaves cornice; chamfered reveals at ground and 1st floors, stop-chamfered above; deep-set panelled doors; plate glass fanlights.

S (WARRENDER PARK ROAD) ELEVATION: 4-bay, including corner tower in bay to outer right. Roll-moulded doorway with bracketted cornice in 3rd bay; blinded balustraded blocking course forming apron to single window at 1st floor above; single windows to 2nd and 3rd floors; pedimented dormerhead linked to wallhead stack. Roll-moulded doorway in 1st bay; hoodmoulded square recessed panel set between 1st and 2nd floors. Bipartite windows to each floor in 2nd bay; blank heraldic shield set in gablehead; stone finial.

CORNER TOWER: 3-stage canted window, corbelled to circular section at 3rd floor; machicolated cornices to outer lights of canted windows at 1st and 2nd floors; cornice to fishscale conical roof with 4 lucarnes.

E (MARCHMONT STREET) elevation: 3-bay excluding corner tower bay to outer left. Full-height canted window in bay to outer right; swept and facetted pyramidal roof. Single windows in central bay; cornice to ground floor window. Cipher panel at 2nd floor of 1st bay; blinded single window at 3rd floor. Gable with gabletted crowsteps linking 1st and 2nd bays.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead, gablehead and mutual stacks; gabletted skewputts; iron weathervane finial to conical roof; finials to 2 lucarnes.

INTERIOR: not seen 1991. Drawing room of No 123 contains fine white marble fireplace with original grate and tiled inset depicting characters and scenes from Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels (information courtesy of owner, 2001).

Low saddleback wall to streets.