29, 31, 33, 35 Polwarth Crescent, Edinburgh

Circa 1900. 4-storey 8-bay corner tenement with shops at ground floor. Cream sandstone, ashlar front. Porjecting shops at ground floor with continuous cornice and blocking course; banded cill course at 2nd and 3rd floor; chamfered reveals; 3rd floor windows with coped gabled dormerheads (rebuilt); common stair doorways with panelled doors and rectangular fanlights with border glazing.

NE (POLWARTH CRESCENT) ELEVATION: 4-bay (excluding canted corner bay, see below); shop to outer left (No 29) with original plain shopfront, recessed doorway and slender timber mullions with smaller panes to top of display windows. Single windows to centre bays. Bay to outer left with 3-storey canted window with pyramidal finialled roof. Bay to outer right with bipartite windows and tall wallhead stacks.

N (TEMPLE PARK CRESCENT) ELEVATION: 4-bay; pub at ground floor with entrance door in chamfered corner. 3-storey canted corner bay to outer left, tall parapet with angle pilasters and pyramidal finials rising from carved corbels, tall elongated swept polygonal roof with finialled ogee top. Blank bay to left of centre with tall shouldered wallhead stack. Bay to right of centre with single windows. 3-storey canted window to outer right with finialled pyramidal roof.

Timber sash and case windows, mostley plate glass glazing (replacement windows to 2nd and 3rd floor to NE); slate roof with lead flashings; 2 wallhead stacks (see above), mutual stacks (all rebuilt); moulded eaves gutter and gutterheads.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.