31, 33, 35, 37 Dundas Street, Edinburgh

31, 33, 35, and 37 Dundas Street in Edinburgh is an early 19th-century terraced tenement designed by Robert Reid and William Sibbald. This four-storey building, which includes a basement and a wallhead attic on the fourth storey, features a striking façade made of broached ashlar sandstone. The principal floor showcases V-jointed rustication, a base course, and several band courses that separate the basement from the principal floor and the principal from the first floor. The windows on the first and second floors have projecting cills, and there is a cornice at the second floor, along with a string course and blocking course at the third floor. The entrance is marked by ashlar steps and entrance platts that extend over the basement.

The western elevation, or principal elevation, includes a nine-panel timber common stair door with a blind rectangular fanlight, centrally located on the principal floor. To the left, there is a four-bay shop front featuring a round-arched doorpiece with a six-panel timber door and a radial semicircular fanlight in the third bay from the left (No 35). This is flanked by pilastered and corniced shop windows and a later 19th-century canted window with a cornice. There are also pairs of six-panel timber doors with two-pane rectangular fanlights in the third bay from the right, and another pilastered and corniced shop front on the outer right, which includes a plate glass window and a glazed door with a two-pane rectangular fanlight. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with the cills lowered in the right and penultimate bays at the first floor. The basement features two shop fronts, one to the left with a two-panel glazed timber door and multi-pane window, and another to the left of centre with a glazed timber door and multi-pane window, accompanied by an elaborate gilded shop sign.

The building is predominantly fitted with 12-pane timber sash and case windows, topped by a grey slate M-roof. It has cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered and broached ashlar ridge stacks that are coped and fitted with circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1997, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters. The property is also adorned with ashlar copes topped by iron railings featuring spear-headed balusters.