15, 17, 17A Nelson Street, Edinburgh

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1812. 4-storey and basement, 5-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal and 1st floors; continual cill course at 1st floor; projecting cills to 2nd floor windows; continual cornice at 2nd floor, returned and terminated at corner; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpieces in central bay and penultimate bay from right at principal floor, comprising 6-panel timber doors with radial semicircular fanlights. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above. Flagged basement area.

N ELEVATION: 4-storey and basement, 5-bay elevation becoming 6-7A Northumberland Place. Regular fenestration to all floors, blind windows in penultimate bay from right and bay to outer right at principal, 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. 6-bay at basement, with panelled timber doors in penultimate bays from left and right, flanked by windows. Flagged basement area.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Window guards to all 3rd floor windows in W elevation, except in penultimate bay from right, and to 3 bays to left at 3rd floor of N elevation. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar shouldered gablehead stack centred at W elevation, rendered shouldered gablehead stack centred at N elevation; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with spear-headed balusters and pineapple finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.