11 Walker Street, Edinburgh

Robert Brown, 1822-25. 9-bay terrace comprising unified façade of 2- and 3-storey, attic and basement, 3-bay classical townhouses with main-door and common stair flats behind; slightly advanced cornerblock to S with end return to William Street; later ashlar attic storey to No. 15. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Sandstone ashlar, droved ashlar at basement channelled ashlar at ground floor. Entrance platts oversailing basement. Base course; banded cill course at 1st floor with string course above between windows. Corniced eaves course, plain parapet (stepped to corner). Timber 6-panel doors. Doorpieces square headed with rectangular fanlights, plain glazing. Architraved, corniced and bracketed opening to centre of corner block. Cast-iron balconies on foliate brackets to 1st floor windows.

WILLIAM STREET ELEVATION: 3 storeys, 3 bays. Squared coursed rubble with droved ashlar long and short ashlar quoins. Single window to centre at ground 1st and 2nd floors. Stone cills and lintels.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 4-storey. Regular coursed rubble with some long and short ashlar quoins. Advanced and recessed wall plane with some later additions. Ashlar rybats, lintels and sills to irregular fenestration, some with relieving arches.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case window. Mansard roof; grey slates. Double pitch M-section roof. Wallhead stacks in corniced ashlar with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings above ashlar coping stone edging basement recess to street; spear headed finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods