36 India Street, Edinburgh

William and Lewis A Wallace, 1819-23. 3-storey and basement, 10-bay tenement in terraced site. Polished sandstone ashlar; polished V-jointed rustication at principal floor; broached ashlar at basement. Band course at principal and 1st floors; cill course at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpieces in bays 3rd from left and 3rd, 4th and 5th from right; recessed flush-panelled doors with umbrella, decorative and plate glass fanlights. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above. Cast-iron window guards in bays at 1st floor. Flagged basement area, with coped rubble retaining walls; predominantly vertically boarded timber doors to cellars.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows; plate glass to principal and 1st floors of Nos 36 and 42. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Harled ridge stacks; coped with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and quasi-Maltese cross finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamp with glass globe.