15 Carlton Street, Edinburgh

15 Carlton Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey and basement, four-bay plain classical corner tenement built by Robert Paterson & Son in 1881. The building features a prominent bowed corner bay and is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with rustication at the ground floor. The entrance has platts that oversail the basement area recess to the street. There is a banded base course and a banded cill course at the first, second, and third floors, along with a corniced eaves course. The inset doorways have timber doors with rectangular fanlights. To the right of the entrance at 15 Leslie Place, there is a tri-partite window with stone mullions. The first-floor windows are moulded architraved and corniced, while the second-floor windows are moulded architraved.

On the southeast rear elevation, the building features squared and snecked sandstone with some tooled ashlar dressings. The windows are predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case style. The roof is pitched and covered with grey slates, and there are corniced ashlar ridge stacks with some octagonal clay cans. The building also has cast-iron rainwater goods and cast-iron railings edging the basement area recess to the street.

Inside, a selection of interiors seen in 2010 reveals a classical decorative scheme, characterized by well-detailed cornicing in the principal rooms and large entrance vestibules.