62, 64, 66, 68 West Port, Edinburgh

David McArthy, 1887. 4-storey and attic 8-bay asymmetrical tenement block with original shops to ground floor. Squared and snecked stugged sandstone with red sandstone dressings (harled to side) with 3-storey brick wing at right angles to rear and 2-storey brick house to rear.

N (WEST PORT) ELEVATION: continuous cornice above shops; cill courses at 1st 2nd and 3rd floors; chamfered reveals. Glazed timber panelled doors to shops. Tabbed windows. Bipartite windows in outer right bay; red sandstone dormer with square window and ball-finialled decorative pediment (dated 1887). Crowstepped gable to 2nd and 3rd bays from right: single windows to right, bipartites to left at 1st 2nd and 3rd floors; keyblocked circular window in gable Crowstepped gable to 4th bay from right: timber panelled door to close (Cordiners' Land) in corniced roll-moulded surround with hoodmoulded carved panel over (see Notes); bipartites at 1st 2nd and 3rd floors; square window in gable. Single windows in 4th bay from left; wallhead stack corbelled out at 2nd floor, shouldered at eaves to right. Single windows in 3rd bay from left; small pedimented red sandstone dormer with square window. Broad shouldered wallhead stack corbelled out at 2nd floor between 2nd and 3rd bays from left; carved panel (see Notes) in aedicule with scrolled pediment clasping thistle. Crowstepped gable to 2 outer left bays; single windows to right, bipartites to left; keyblocked circular window in gable.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: modern advanced harled stair tower to rear with pitched-roofed painted metal balcony tower; concrete access decks with cast-iron brackets and railings; modern pitched-roofed dormers with decorative metal frames. Later 3-storey 6-bay wing adjoining to SW: red brick with yellow brick dressings; open stair (concrete steps, cast-iron handrail) at angle; white glazed tiles; concrete access decks with cast-iron brackets and railings timber panelled doors with 2-pane fanlights flanked by single windows; 3 projecting blocks to rear: piend-roofed single bay block to right; piend-roofed stair tower to centre; later polygonal block to left.

Free-standing piend-roofed 2-storey brick house to S (modern single storey wing to left): oriel window to centre at 1st floor.

8-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows (modern glazing to free-standing block to rear). Grey slates. Corniced stacks with octagonal chimneys to main block. Corniced brick stacks with circular cans to block at rear.

GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS: garden to centre at rear with cast-iron railings on retaining walls.