4 Douglas Gardens, Edinburgh

John Watherston and Sons, 1890. Terrace comprising 3-storey and basement, 2-bay unified façade of gabled townhouses with plain classical detailing with maindoor and common stair flats behind. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Set on ground falling steeply to N. Later (1933) ashlar stair with rounded copes to far right (S), leading to upper floors of No. 1. Canted 2-storey bays with dentilled cornice; balustraded with straight stone balusters, all in slightly advanced steeply gabled bays. Sandstone ashlar. Entrance platts oversailing basements. Banded base course. Corniced eaves course; moulded architraves, corniced cills. 2-leaf timber panelled doors, plain rectangular fanlights in architraved doorway with dentilled cornice and open, semi-circular, scrolled pediment above. Bipartite windows at 2nd floor above canted bays.

12- and 9-pane over plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Double pitch M-section roof; grey slates. Corniced ashlar ridge and gable end stacks; ashlar skews; modern octagonal clay cans. Cast-iron railings on ashlar coping stone edging basement recess to street. Cast-iron rainwater goods.