19, 19B Howe Street, Edinburgh

19 and 19B Howe Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey and basement terraced tenement building designed by Robert Reid and William Sibbald in 1802. It is constructed from broached ashlar sandstone and features a band course at the principal and first floors, a cill course at the first and second floors, a cornice at the second floor, and a cornice with a blocking course at the third floor. The entrance area includes a platt and steps that oversail the basement.

The west elevation, which is the principal facade, has a pair of shop fronts that are pilastered, corniced, and consoled, each with two bays. The shop front on the right includes a panelled door with a plate glass rectangular fanlight and a plate glass window, while the left shop front features a recessed glazed door and a plate glass window. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with blind windows in the penultimate bay to the right at the first and second floors.

The north elevation, which is also known as Northumberland Street, is a four-storey and basement structure with seven bays, transitioning to even-numbered addresses 72-76 Northumberland Street. It includes a round-arched doorpiece on the outer left at the principal floor, featuring a six-panel timber common stair door and a blind semicircular fanlight. The remaining bays have regular fenestration at the principal floor and upper floors, with blind windows in the third bay from the left on all floors above the basement, except at the third floor. The principal floor also has a blind window in the third bay from the right and in the penultimate bay from the right on all floors above the basement, as well as in the outer right at the first and second floors and the fourth bay from the left and penultimate bay to the left at the third floor. The basement area is flagged.

The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate M-roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods. There are random rubble and rendered ridge stacks, a shouldered wallhead stack that is coped with circular cans, and coped skews.