64, 66, 68, 70 Cumberland Street, Edinburgh

Thomas Brown, early 19th century. 3-storey and basement, 7-bay terraced tenement. Polished ashlar sandstone; painted polished ashlar at principal floor. Principal floor pilastraded as shop fronts. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; corniced shop fronts; cill courses to 1st and 2nd floor windows; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Architraved 1st floor windows with cornices. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 6-panel timber door with multi-pane rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor, flanked by 3-bay shop front to left, with glazed timber door flanked by plate glass windows, to left, 2-bay shop front with glazed timber door, infilled rectangular fanlight and plate glass window, to right; 2-bay shop front to outer right, with 4-panel timber door with glazed upper panels, rectangular fanlight, plate glass window. Regular fenestration to floors above.

E ELEVATION: coursed rubble, predominantly blank, with window centred at principal floor, small light centre at 1st floor.

W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (16 and 18 St Vincent Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared and snecked rubble ridge stack, with ashlar quoins, rubble gablehead stack with ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings.