10, 11, 12 Brunton Place, London Road, Edinburgh

Designed by John Chesser, built by Laurie and Scott, 1883-1886. Classical 4-storey tenement of common stair and main door flats on corner site; 7-bay (6-bay ground floor) Brunton Place elevation, quadrant corner with tripartite fenestration leading to 5-bay (6-bay to ground floor) Brunton Terrace elevation. Polished ashlar (coursed rubble with dressed margins to rear). Base course; dividing band between ground and 1st floors; moulded cill course to 1st floor; cill band to 2nd floor; modillioned corniced dividing 2nd and 3rd floors (to Brunton Place elevation only); cill band to 3rd floor; eaves cornice; blocking course. Predominantly regular fenestration; architraves to ground floor (Brunton Place elevation only), 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor windows (excluding canted bay); aprons to windows to 1st floor.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to 4th bay from left to ground floor, timber-panelled door (access to common stair) with letterbox fanlight, framed by doorpiece of 2 engaged fluted Greek Doric columns supporting entablature and pediment breaking 1st floor cill course; flanked to left and right by 2-bay groupings comprising narrow windows with extended cills to inner bays, timber-panelled doors (access to main door flat) with letterbox fanlight, framed by Greek Doric pilasters with slightly projecting entablature above to outer bays; to far left bay window with recessed surround and apron.

W (BRUNTON TERRACE) ELEVATION: bipartite windows to outer right bay; to centre, canted bay with stop-chamfered mullions dividing windows. To ground floor, between 4th and 5th bays from left, timber-panelled door with rectangular fanlight. Corniced 1st floor windows. Returned modillioned cornice below 3rd floor cill course to far left. To far left to 1st floor, recessed architraved rectangular panel with round arch to top, with fielded panel inside bearing date '1886' and initials 'JC'.

GLAZING etc: plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Half pitched roof to front and side elevations with piended sections to rear; graded grey slates; predominantly stone skews and skewputts. To Brunton Place elevation: mutual ridge stack to far left, ridge stack to centre; to Brunton Terrace elevation, 2 shouldered wallhead stacks; ridge stack to centre; to far right, gablehead stack; stacks predominantly corniced ashlar with octangular cans.