4 Dublin Street, Edinburgh

4 Dublin Street in Edinburgh is an early 19th-century terraced tenement designed by Robert Reid and William Sibbald. This three-storey building, with an attic and basement, features a four-bay front and a three-bay side elevation. The exterior is made of ashlar sandstone, showcasing V-jointed rustication at the principal floor. There are band courses between the basement and the principal floor, as well as between the principal and first floors. The east elevation has projecting cills at the first and second floors and attic, while the south elevation is adorned with a dentilled cornice and a blocking course. Ionic pilasters are present between the bays at the first and second floors on the south elevation, and the first-floor windows are architraved with cornices on either side.

The entrance elevation is a four-bay gable, featuring a two-bay pilastered and corniced former shop front to the right at the basement, which includes a four-panel timber door and a plate glass rectangular fanlight to the left, with a window to the right. There is also a window in the center right at the basement and regular fenestration above, with a pair of windows in the attic.

On the south elevation facing Queen Street, there are three windows to the outer right at the basement, a slightly advanced stepped cornice, and a Venetian window to the outer right at the principal floor. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with a window in a round-arched recess centered at the first floor. A single-storey and basement linking block is advanced to the left at the principal floor, connecting 4 Dublin Street to York Buildings.

The building predominantly features two-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with roof lights on the south side, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The ashlar stack breaks the pitch on the south side, with ashlar gablehead stacks that are coped and have circular cans.

The interiors were not seen as of 1997. The property is also noted for its railings, which consist of ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings featuring spear-headed balusters and urn finials.