40, 42, 44, 46 Dublin Street, Edinburgh

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century. 3-storey, attic and basement 7-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; projecting cills to 1st and 2nd floor windows; modillioned cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 9-panel timber common stair door with glazed upper panels, plate glass rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor, flanked by pair of round-arched doorpieces with 9-panel timber doors, plate glass semicircular fanlights; windows in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above.

N ELEVATION: random rubble gable.

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (32-38 Dublin Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar stacks breaking pitch, rendered gablehead stacks; 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.