6, 8, 10 Frederick Street, Edinburgh

1786-92. 3-storey and attic, 7-bay classical former tenement; ground floor built out as shops. Droved cream ashlar sandstone (cleaned).

4 left bays grouped closely. 2 shops at ground in single modern unified front with plate glass windows and polished ashlar facing; access to upper floors via door to centre right (No 8). Eaves cornice. Pair of modern slate-hung piend-roofed dormers with canted windows.

4-storey to rear with cast-iron balconies at 3rd floor.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt corniced dressed stone stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: shops extended to rear at ground; No 6 with own access to 1st floor. No 10 with later straight stair to 1st floor; bowed room to rear with tripartite window and 19th century chimneypiece; front room (running front to rear) with panelled dado. Double upper flats. That to N with curved stone stair with square iron banisters and coved oval rooflight; bowed room to rear with sideboard recess and fine carved timber chimneypiece with gesso enrichments, fluted frieze and pilasters; front room with 19th century chimneypiece; attic floor with bed recess in rear room. Plainer S flat with straight stair with turned and blocked banisters.