6, 8, 10 Frederick Street, Edinburgh

6, 8, 10 Frederick Street in Edinburgh is a classical former tenement building constructed between 1786 and 1792. It stands three stories tall with an attic and features seven bays. The ground floor has been converted into shops and is faced with cleaned droved cream ashlar sandstone.

The four left bays are closely grouped together. The two shops on the ground floor have a modern unified front with plate glass windows and polished ashlar facing. Access to the upper floors is provided by a door located to the centre right of the building (No 8). The building has an eaves cornice and features a pair of modern slate-hung piend-roofed dormers with canted windows.

At the rear, the building rises to four stories and includes cast-iron balconies at the third floor. The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, and the building has ashlar coped skews, rebuilt corniced dressed stone stacks, and grey slate roofing.

Inside, the shops extend to the rear on the ground floor, with No 6 having its own access to the first floor. No 10 features a later straight stair leading to the first floor, which includes a bowed room at the rear with a tripartite window and a 19th-century chimneypiece. The front room runs from the front to the rear and has a panelled dado. The upper flats are double, with the northern flat featuring a curved stone stair with square iron banisters and a coved oval rooflight. The rear bowed room includes a sideboard recess and a finely carved timber chimneypiece with gesso enrichments, fluted frieze, and pilasters, while the front room has a 19th-century chimneypiece. The attic floor includes a bed recess in the rear room. The southern flat is plainer, with a straight stair featuring turned and blocked banisters.