10 Chester Street, Edinburgh

John Lessels, 1862-70. Extensive astylar renaissance terrace; unified townhouse façade with main-door and common stair flats behind, comprising 3-bay townhouses with taller 3-storey and basement advanced corner blocks; shouldered archway between Nos. 10 and 12. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Sandstone ashlar, droved ashlar at basement, channelled ashlar at ground floor. Entrance platts oversailing basements. Band course between basement and ground floor. Banded cill courses at 1st and 2nd floor, bracketed to central terraces at 2nd floor. String course to corner blocks. Corniced eaves course. Parapeted and balustraded corner blocks, with plain bas-relief. Recessed round arched window surrounds to corner blocks at ground floor. Architraved and corniced segmental arched windows, rosette to cornice of alternating surrounds. Architraved, bracketed and corniced, alternating with pedimented windows at 1st floor to corner blocks. Moulded architraved surrounds to 2nd floor. Similar elevation on corner block return to Walker Street but with no pedimented 1st floor window surrounds and blind windows to ground, 1st and 2nd floors. Stepped parapet and bas-relief panel to centre. Cast-iron balconies

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Timber 4-panel doors in round arched surrounds. Plain fanlights. Narrow sidelights at corner blocks. Corniced ashlar ridge and gable end stacks with modern clay cans. Double pitch M-section roof; grey slates. Cast-iron, 3-bay balconies on scrolled brackets to 1st floor windows. Cast-iron railings on ashlar coping stone edging basement recess to street. Cast-iron rainwater goods.