104 St Stephen Street, Edinburgh

This building is a terraced tenement located at 62 to 78 St Stephen Street in Edinburgh, designed by Robert Brown in 1825 and by George Smith in 1835-1836. It features 37 bays and stands three stories high with a basement, constructed from broached ashlar sandstone, with polished ashlar on the principal floor. The entrance has ashlar steps and platts that extend over the basement.

The northwest elevation, which is the principal facade, has a corniced principal floor and includes pilastraded shop fronts with two and three bays up to No 74. These shop fronts consist of two-leaf glazed doors and a two-leaf four-panel timber door at No 74, along with various rectangular fanlights and windows with plate glass and lying panes. There are four-panel timber doors leading to the common stair in the 5th, 13th, and 21st bays from the right. To the east of No 74, there are doors in the outer left bay and in the 6th, 9th, and 11th bays from the left, with windows in the remaining bays on the principal floor. The upper floors have regular fenestration. No 104 is slightly set forward and features a taller attic, a bipartite window in the penultimate bay from the left on the second floor, blind aprons on the first-floor windows, and a carved wallhead tablet that reads 'St Stephen's School', supported by Playfair-esque consoles flanking the central second-floor windows. This is topped by a stone sculpture of an open book with a carved inscription, and the cornice is returned and terminated at the corners.

The northeast elevation is obscured by an adjoining building at the principal floor level, while the first and second floors are blank. The southwest elevation adjoins another terrace, which is listed separately.

The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate M-roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods. There are various broached ashlar ridge and gablehead stacks, which are coped and have circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1997, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters. The property also includes ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that feature spear-headed and fleur-de-lis balusters, along with a cast-iron lamp with a copper lantern at No 74.