3-11 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh

3-11 Shandwick Place is a classical end of terrace corner block built around 1813, with later alterations. The building has three storeys and an attic over a basement, featuring five bays and shops at the ground floor. The ground floor is characterized by painted, V-jointed rustication with polished and painted dressings, while the upper levels are finished in stugged sandstone ashlar. There is a band course between the principal and first floors, a cill course to the first floor, block cills to the second floor, and a cornice with a blocking course that includes a raised central panel on the northwest elevation. A band course also runs along the gable.

On the northwest (principal) elevation, steps lead down from the left to a two-leaf part-glazed timber door to the basement, located under the penultimate bay. There is a boarded window to the return on the left and a stone flight to the outer bay on the right, where a doorway has been converted to a shop window. The principal floor features a large shop window across the remaining four bays to the left, with a window in each bay above on every floor.

The northeast elevation has bays arranged in groups of two, two, and three, with a gable spanning five bays to the right. A modern canopy covers a glazed porch that spans two bays at the center of the ground floor. There is an advanced modern shop front spanning two bays on the outer left, and a centered modern glazed door with shop windows flanking it in a three-bay section on the outer right. Each bay has a window on the first and second floors, with a single window in two bays of the gable. A two-light box dormer is positioned above the cornice to the left of the gable.

The southwest and southeast elevations are obscured by adjacent buildings. The shop windows at the ground floor are complemented by 12-pane timber sash and case windows above. The roof is covered in grey slate, with coped skews at the gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior has been converted for modern shops at the ground floor, with other areas remaining unseen.