10 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh

James Gillespie Graham, designed 1822. 3-storey with attic and basement, 26-bay, polished ashlar sandstone classical terrace with concave curved frontage. The building comprises an 18-bay linking terrace flanked by 4-bay end pavilions with Doric pilasters. Ashlar steps and entrance platts over-sailing basement. V-jointed ashlar at the principal floor level. Flagstone basement wells with predominantly timber boarded cellar doors.

Linking terrace (southeast elevation): Panelled timber doors and rectilinear fanlights in every 3rd bay from left at principal floor. Regular fenestration in remaining bays at principal floor and floors above. Architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor. Anthemion and palmette cast-iron window guards at 1st floor except at No 13 which has an iron window guard spanning the bays. Cill course and architraves at 2nd floor. Cornice and blocking course at attic. There are three regularly space gabletted dormerheads breaking eaves at No 13, and piended dormers at Nos 14 and 15.

End pavilion to right: multi-panel glazed timber door and radial semicircular fanlight to No 9. Round-arched windows to principal floor. Windows to outer right at 1st and 2nd floors and attic are blind. Return to southeast elevation becoming 19 Great Stuart Street (see LB28967).

End pavilion to left: Panelled timber door with rectangular fanlight surmounted by semicircular fanlight to No 16. Round-arched windows to principal floor. The door to No 17 Randolph Crescent is centred at the principal floor of the 5-bay southwest elevation (facing Randolph Cliff). It is reached by a stone forestair with a vase balustrade, supported by four ornate scrolled brackets. The entrance to No 1 Randolph Cliff is directly below. To the outer left bay is the entrance to No 1A Randolph Cliff, the doorway having a console and pediment surround.

The terrace has a variety of plate-glass, 6-pane and 15-pane timber sash and case windows, grey slate roofs and cast-iron rainwater goods. The chimney stacks are coped with circular cans: ridge stacks to the central terrace; stacks set in roof pitch to end pavilions.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998. Evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with decorative balusters and finials.