15 Dundas Street, Edinburgh

15 Dundas Street is a terraced tenement building in Edinburgh, designed by Robert Reid and William Sibbald in the early 19th century, with some alterations. It has four storeys and a basement, featuring five bays, with the fourth storey functioning as a wallhead attic. The building is constructed from broached ashlar sandstone, displaying V-jointed rustication at the principal floor. There are band courses between the basement and the principal floor, as well as between the principal and first floors. The first and second floors have projecting cills, and there is a cornice at the second floor, along with a string course and blocking course at the third floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platforms extend over the basement.

The west elevation, which is the principal facade, features a round-arched doorpiece with a lowered panelled timber common stair door in the penultimate bay from the left, accompanied by a four-pane rectangular fanlight. Above this door is a blocked former doorhead that has a blind radial and rectilinear round-arched fanlight. In the third bay from the right, there is a two-leaf panelled timber door with a decorative radial rectangular fanlight. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with cills lowered on the outer left and right at the third floor. There is a blind window in the penultimate bay from the right on the third floor and at the basement level. To the left, there is a two-bay pilastered and corniced shop front, which includes a two-leaf, six-panel timber door with a plate glass rectangular fanlight on the left and a plate glass shop window on the right.

The south elevation adjoins another terrace, which is listed separately (9-13C Dundas Street), as does the north elevation (19 and 21 Dundas Street). The building predominantly features twelve-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate M-roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The gablehead stack is made of broached ashlar and is coped with circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1997, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters. The railings consist of ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have spear-headed balusters and urn finials.