43 William Street, Edinburgh

Robert Brown, 1824-5. Extensive 3-storey and basement, plain classical commercial terrace with earlier 19th century shop premises with pilastrade of single and paired pilasters at ground floor at ground floor. Droved ashlar to basement, smooth at 1st and 2nd floors. Squared coursed rubble with long and short ashlar quoins to E elevation. Entrance platts oversailing basement. Deep band course and cornice at 1st floor. Banded cill course at 1st and 2nd floors. Corniced eaves course. Ashlar rybats to openings at E elevation.

NORTH (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-storey 24-bay roughly squared and coursed rubble with tooled long and short quoin stones. Irregular fenestration with tooled rybats lintels and cills.

Large plate glass windows original earlier 19th century shop fronts. Predominantly 12-pane in timber sash and case at 1st and 2nd floors. Corniced gable end and ridge stacks with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings to ground floor edging basement recess; fleur-de-lys finials Cast-iron rainwater goods.