Convening Rooms, 29 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh

Archibald Elliot, designed 1815, built 1818-19. Classical wedge-plan building on corner site; 5 bays to Waterloo Place, 5 bays to circled corner, 7 bays to Calton Hill; single storey (partially 2-storey to rear). Polished ashlar (predominantly droved ashlar to Calton Hill and rear elevations). Slightly advanced base course, eaves cornice, parapet. Greek Doric colonnade to corner; recessed blank niches and window opening framed by Doric columns to Waterloo Place elevation. Regular fenestration.

SE (WATERLOO PLACE) ELEVATION: advanced bay to left with recessed window flanked by Greek Doric columns. Advanced blank section to right connecting with corner elevation. To centre, round-arched doorway with stilted-arched fanlight flanked by single blank niche to left, 2 to right.

E (CORNER) ELEVATION: base course surmounted by chevaux de frise; hexastyle Greek Doric colonnade; window to each bay.

NE (CALTON HILL) ELEVATION: advanced 4-bay section to left, blank window at 3rd bay from left. 2-storey section to right, doorway to left, variety of fenstration, some bipartite.

W ELEVATION: advanced 2-storey section to left with central single window to ground floor. To centre, recessed single storey section with 2 windows. Advanced section to right; blank wall, mostly obscured by elevated ground level of Old Calton Burying Ground.

GLAZING etc: predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to 2-storey section of rear elevation. Flat roof. Corniced ashlar stacks with predominantly octagonal cans, 1 to NE wallhead, 1 to W wallhead and 2 to centre of roof.

INTERIOR: octagonal (straight and curved walls) entrance lobby toplit by cupola; black painted stone fireplace of classical foliated design. Principal function room accessed from lobby; large long room with apsidal ends; cavetto cornice dividing ceiling into rectangle and 2 semicircles. To N wall, 2 consoled classical stone fireplaces, 1/4 height wood panelling and architraved windows. To E end, raised platform behind panelled timber 1/4 height partition; architraved windows. To S wall, classical doorpieces to far right and left; to centre, 2-storey curved balcony recess under depressed arch, supported on 2 cast-iron columns with stiff-leaf capitals. To W end, 2 curved doors to right and left. Room toplit by large central lozenge-shaped opening with plaster border to ceiling and anthemion and palmette frieze on inner edge; rectangular clerestorey above, glazed all round with flat covered roof. Remainder of interior includes ancillary rooms and smaller meeting rooms, some toplit by cupolas.