12 Randolph Place, Edinburgh

A 3-storey, 14-bay asymmetrical classical terraced tenement designed by Robert Reid in 1810, with a 3-bay advanced terminal pavilion to the left and built out at attic level. The building is constructed of broached ashlar sandstone, painted at No 12.

The street frontage features a cill course at first floor level, with a band course corniced at cill level at second floor, both returned and terminated at the north-east gable. Doorpieces are architraved and corniced, with pilasters at No 12. Most openings are architraved, except at No 10 and second floor at No 12. The cornice and blocking course at second floor have been removed at No 10. A panelled pilaster is positioned to the outer right at second floor.

The principal (north) elevation comprises a mix of domestic and commercial frontages. These include two 9-panel timber common stair doors—one at No 11 with a 3-pane rectangular fanlight, the other at No 10 with a blind rectangular fanlight. A shallow-canted 3-light former shop front window to the left features square-pane leaded upper panels and a dentilled cornice with decorative consoles. A modern timber corniced restaurant front spans two bays at the outer left with a 6-pane plate glass window. A 3-bay shop front to the right of centre comprises an 8-panel timber door at No 12 with glazed upper panels and a plate glass rectangular fanlight, with additional plate glass windows occupying former doorpieces and a shallow-canted central window. A further 3-bay shop front to the right at No 13 features large decorative consoles, plate glass windows flanking a recessed glazed timber door with plate glass rectangular fanlight and returns. An 8-panel former 2-leaf timber common stair door with plate glass rectangular fanlight sits to the outer right. Regular fenestration appears to floors above, including a blind window in the penultimate bay from the left at first floor of No 10, and 2-light regularly-spaced windows at second floor of No 10.

The east elevation facing Charlotte Lane is a 2-bay gable constructed of coursed rubble with droved ashlar dressings and long and short quoins. Rendering has been applied above the cornice between first and second floors. A modern shallow-canted 5-light window with Venetian glazing pattern in a slapping with stone lintel is located to the left at ground level, with a blind window to the right. Windows in bays appear at first floor. A pair of 3-bay, 2-storey former coach houses to the left feature a pair of plate glass windows in segmental-arched slappings at the centre, a modern glazed doorpiece in a slapping with stone lintel at the outer right at ground level, and a modern 6-panel 2-leaf timber door with a pair of windows to the left at ground. Irregular fenestration is present at first floor. A later 2-bay flat-roofed raised storey, slate-hung, with irregular fenestration occupies the space to the right of centre. The south gable is constructed of random rubble with a pair of later irregularly-spaced openings at ground level.

The building features predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows throughout. Decorative iron window guards on iron brackets are fitted to first floor windows at No 11. Grey slate M-roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods are present. Broached ashlar ridge, wallhead and gablehead stacks are corniced with circular cans.

The interiors have not been inspected, but evidence of working panelled shutters is noted. The rear (south) elevation was not seen at the time of inspection in 1999.