4 Carlton Street, Edinburgh

James Milne, designed 1824. Extensive terrace of 2-storey and basement, 3-bay townhouses in plain classical style with continuous balustraded parapet and cast-iron 1st floor balconies. Sandstone ashlar, rusticated at ground floor. Entrance platts oversailing basement area recess to street. Banded base course; banded cill course at 1st floor; corniced eaves course with balustraded parapet above. Inset doorways; timber doors with rectangular fanlights (some with geometric glazing pattern). Moulded architraved and corniced windows at 1st floor.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: coursed squared rubble with droved ashlar rybats, lintels and cills. Regular fenestration.

Predominantly 12-pane glazing pattern timber sash and case windows, 6- over 9-pane at 1st floor. Double-pitched roof; grey slates. Corniced ashlar ridge stacks with some octagonal clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cast-iron railings edging basement area recess to street; cast-iron lamp standards with large bowl shades.

INTERIOR: (selection of interiors seen 2010) classical decorative scheme characterised by decorative cornicing and large drawing rooms. Some large entrance vestibules with cornicing, stone stairs with well-detailed cast iron balustrade and timber handrail, topped by large oval cupolas with decorative plasterwork beneath. Large ground and 1st floor drawing rooms to front with elaborate cornicing, some ceiling roses and some large marble fireplaces. Cornicing continues throughout, less elaborate to upper floors. Some working window shutters. Majority of interiors subdivided to form later flats.