40, 42, 44, 46 Dublin Street, Edinburgh

40, 42, 44, and 46 Dublin Street in Edinburgh is a terraced tenement building designed by Robert Reid and William Sibbald in the early 19th century. This three-storey structure features an attic and basement and has seven bays. It is constructed from broached ashlar sandstone, with V-jointed rustication on the principal floor. There are band courses between the basement and the principal floor, as well as between the principal floor and the first floor. The windows on the first and second floors have projecting cills, and there is a modillioned cornice and blocking course at the second floor. The entrance is accessed by ashlar steps and platts that overhang the basement.

The principal elevation includes a nine-panel timber common stair door with glazed upper panels, centered at the principal floor. This door is flanked by a pair of round-arched doorpieces, each with nine-panel timber doors and plate glass semicircular fanlights. The remaining bays on the principal floor have windows, and there is regular fenestration on the upper floors.

The northeast elevation features a random rubble gable, while the southeast elevation adjoins another terrace, which is listed separately (32-38 Dublin Street).

The building predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate M-roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The ashlar stacks break the pitch of the roof, with rendered gablehead stacks that are coped and topped with circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1997, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters. The railings consist of ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have spear-headed balusters and urn finials.