1 Grassmarket, Edinburgh

Circa 1875, rebuilt (after fire) James Maclean 1897, with later alterations and additions. 4-storey and attic tenement with Scots Baronial details including corner bartizans, on splayed corner s's Stables Road; 6-bay rear wing and projecting 3-storey wing to King's Stables Road; modern single storey triangular infill. Squared and snecked stugged sandstone with polished dressings; rear wing random rubble. Roll-moulded and tabbed surrounds to 1st and 2nd storey windows of principal block, shoulder-arched to 3rd; moulded string course between storeys; machicolated corbelled course between 2nd and 3rd; gabled dormerheads with crescent finials to attic windows breaking eaves.

NE (GRASSMARKET) ELEVATION: entrance in centre bay: timber panelled door with semicircular fanlight in segmental-arched moulded surround with horse-shoe arch within. Window (modern glazing) to right and 2-leaf timber panelled door to left in broad segmental-arched openings. Regularly fenestrated above. Crenellated corner bartizan tower with 2 carved panels corbelled out above ground floor to outer right (formerly had conical fish-scale slated roof).

N (KING'S STABLES ROAD) ELEVATION: window in broad segmental-arched opening to ground; regularly fenestrated above. Long and short quoins; corner bartizan with conical slated roof corbelled out at 3rd floor to right. Elevation of 2-storey crowstep-gabled projecting wing to outer right: modern garage entrances to ground; regularly fenestrated; carved panel and corbelled out apex stack above; small castellated corner bartizans at 2nd floor to right and left; chamfered corner to Lady Wynd.

REAR WING: regularly fenestrated. Moulded string course below attic level; crowstepped gable to centre with wallhead stack and moulded arch over window; small corner bartizan to outer right.

12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates; decorative terracotta ridge tiles. Corniced stacks with some octagonal cans.