52 Frederick Street, Edinburgh

1786-92. 3-storey basement and attic 8-bay classical tenement on corner site. Broached cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Long and short quoins at S corner; band course above 1st floor; eaves cornice. Ground floor built out as modern plate glass shop to 2 left bays. Corniced architraved doors to 3rd (en suite with shopfront), 4th and 6th bays from left. Centre door (common stair) with 3-pane fanlight; No 56 with delicate metal fanlight; centre right window at ground enlarged. Incongruous full-width slate-hung dormer to 3 left bays with pair of canted piend-roofed windows; canted piend-roofed dormer to far right.

Coursed rubble gable, rendered at ground, with windows to centre and left at ground and 1st floor.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: modernised shop at ground, with direct access to original tight central stair (also accessed from front door) with plain square banisters; 2-bay room at 1st floor with grey marble Grecian chimneypiece. No 56 extended to rear at basement and ground; Hall with inner pilastered screen with fanlight, pilastered archway; stair on axis with plain square banisters; former Dining Room with earlier 19th century black slate chimneypiece and overdoors; SW room chimneypiece with marble slips and cast-iron grate; former 3-bay Drawing Room with panelled dado and fine white marble chimneypiece with engaged Ionic columns and central tableau (Leda and Swan); further front room at 1st floor with reeded chimneypiece and cast-iron Gothic grate; corridor created to NW giving access to No 58 (see separate listing). Both flats (No 54) divided internally into 2; that to N mostly refurbished, that to S unseen 1995.

RAILINGS: cast-iron spearhead railings.