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

This is a substantial, classically-designed tenement built between 1883 and 1886, designed by John Chesser and constructed by Laurie and Scott. It occupies a corner site on London Road in Edinburgh, facing both Brunton Place and Brunton Terrace. The building is four storeys high and comprises a main stair and individual flats accessed from a prominent main door. The 7-bay (6 bays on the ground floor) frontage to Brunton Place transitions to a quadrant corner with a large tripartite window, and then continues with a 5-bay (6 bays on the ground floor) elevation to Brunton Terrace.

The exterior is finely finished in polished ashlar, with coursed rubble and dressed margins to the rear. Architectural detailing includes a base course, a dividing band between the ground and first floors, moulded cill courses, a modillioned corniced band separating the second and third floors on the Brunton Place elevation, and eaves cornices. The windows are regularly spaced; the ground floor windows on the Brunton Place elevation have architraves, and the windows on the first, second, and third floors (excluding the canted bay) have aprons.

The principal (south) elevation features a timber-panelled door leading to the common stair in the fourth bay from the left on the ground floor. This is framed by a doorpiece consisting of two engaged fluted Greek Doric columns supporting an entablature and pediment that breaks over the first floor cill course. Flanking this are two-bay groupings of narrow windows with extended cills to the inner bays, timber-panelled doors with letterbox fanlights, and Greek Doric pilasters with projecting entablatures above. A recessed window with an apron is located in the far left bay.

The west (Brunton Terrace) elevation has bipartite windows in the outer right bay. A notable feature is a canted bay with stop-chamfered mullions dividing the windows. On the ground floor, between the fourth and fifth bays from the left, is a timber-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight. Recessed architraved rectangular panels with round arches at the top are located on the first floor to the far left, containing a fielded panel bearing the date '1886' and the initials 'JC'.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass. The roof is half-pitched, with piended sections to the rear, covered in graded grey slates. Stone skews and skewputts are present, and there are multiple corniced ashlar stacks with octagonal cans, including a mutual ridge stack to the far left on the Brunton Place elevation, several on the Brunton Terrace elevation, and a gablehead stack to the far right.