210 Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh

Dunn & Findlay, circa 1905. 4-storey tenement block on acute corner site with 3-bay chamfered angle and Scottish 17th century detail; bank at ground floor at corner; cream ashlar; 1st and 2nd floor cill course, eaves cornice; 4th floor windows break parapet at attic with ovolo moulded reveals; architraved windows, 1st floor windows corniced; semi-circular pedimented and gabled dormerheads; ashlar mullions; moulded doorways with panelled doors and rectangular plate glass fanlights.

NE (CORNER) ELEVATION: 3 corner bays; broad chamfered gabled bay to centre with bowed bays flanking set in re-entrant angles as round towers; entrance to bank in chamfer with round-arched keystoned doorpiece, flanked by engaged banded columns and cornice, semi-circular plate glass fanlight; 2-storey corbelled canted window above; panelled angle pilasters at 3rd floor framing pilaster-flanked tripartite window under dentilled cornice; bull's-eye window in gablehead; single curved windows in outer bays, pilastered at 3rd floor towerheads with bracketted and finialled ogee roofs.

NE (MERCHISTON PLACE) ELEVATION: 6-bay; entrance to main door flat to outer right flanked by single window to left and bipartite to right, entrance to common stair flanked by single windows to centre; narrow single window and wide depressed-arch window with border glazing to outer left, bipartite windows corbelled from 1st floor under lugged gable in outer right bay and to left of centre; single windows in remaining bays.

SE (BRUNTSFIELD PLACE) ELEVATION: 5-bay; entrance to main door flat to left flanked by bipartite windows, bipartite window and wide depressed-arch window with border glazing to right; blank bay with tall wallhead stack to right of centre; bipartite windows to remaining bays with outer bays corbelled above ground floor and gableheads to 3rd floor windows. Plate glass sash and case windows; green slate mansard roof, lead flashings; 1 wallhead stack (see above), mutual corniced stacks; moulded eaves gutters and gutter-heads.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Low stepped boundary wall to Nos 2-10 Merchiston Place and Nos 212-226 Bruntsfield Place.