31, 33, 35, 37 Dundas Street, Edinburgh

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century, with later alterations. 4-storey and basement, 8-bay terraced tenement, with 4th storey as wallhead attic. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; projecting cills to 1st and 2nd floor windows; cornice at 2nd floor; string course and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 9-panel timber common stair door, with blind rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor; 4-bay shop front to left comprising round-arched doorpiece with 6-panel timber door and radial semicircular fanlight in 3rd bay from left (No 35), flanked to left by 2-bay pilastered and corniced shop windows, with pair of plate glass windows, and to right by later 19th century canted window with cornice; pair of 6-panel timber doors with 2-pane rectangular fanlights in bay 3rd from right; 2-bay pilastered and corniced shop front to outer right, with plate glass window to left, glazed door with 2-pane rectangular fanlight to right. Regular fenestration to floors above, with cills lowered to right and penultimate bay to right at 1st floor. Basement comprising 2-bay shop front to left, with 2-panel glazed timber door and multi-pane window; 2-bay shop front to left of centre, with glazed timber door and multi-pane window, with elaborate gilded shop sign.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (3-41 great King Street).

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (25-29 Dundas Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered and broached ashlar ridge stacks; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with spear-headed balusters.