4 Dublin Street, Edinburgh

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century. 3-storey, attic and basement, 4-bay terraced tenement, 3-bay to S. Ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; projecting cills to E elevation at 1st and 2nd floors and attic; dentilled cornice and blocking course to S elevation. Ionic pilasters between bays at 1st and 2nd floor of S elevation. Architraved windows with cornices to left and right at 1st floor.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 4-bay gable, comprising 2-bay pilastered and corniced former shop front to right at basement, with 4-panel timber door, plate glass rectangular fanlight, to left, window to right; window to centre right at basement; regular fenestration to floors above, with pair of windows at attic.

S (QUEEN STREET) ELEVATION: 3 windows to outer right at basement, with slightly advanced stepped cornice, Venetian window to outer right at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, with window in round-arched recess centred at 1st floor. Single storey and basement linking block advanced to left at principal floor, adjoining 4 Dublin Street to York Buildings (see separate listing).

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (6-10A Dublin Street).

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, roof lights to S. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar stack breaking pitch to S, ashlar gablehead stacks; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed balusters and urn finials.