Chemistry Block, George Heriot's School, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

John Anderson, 1911. Long symmetrical 3-storey, 13-bay school with Scots Renaissance and Jacobean detailing. 2-bay end pavilions, central oriel and arcaded ground floor (now filled in). Coursed sandstone ashlar (rubble to sides and rear). Base course to pavilions; moulded dividing course between ground and 1st floors; cill course to main block and pavilions; parapet stepped above oriel and with loopholes to pavilions. Buckle quoins; aedicular windows with strapwork pediments.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated. Slightly advanced centre bay: 2-leaf timber panelled door with decorative sunburst fanlight in round-arched opening (bust of Heriot in keystone), flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters on pedestals; dentilled cornice; 2-storey oriel with heraldic panel above 1st floor window and bell-cast leaded roof above.

S ELEVATION: timber panelled door with 6-pane fanlight in moulded surround with segmental pediment with strapwork decoration to centre, flanked by 2 windows; 5 windows to 1st and 2nd floors.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: piend-roofed advanced outer bays with parapet stepped to corners and loophole to centre, blind to right, 4 windows to upper floor to left. Advanced centre block with tall chimney to right; irregularly fenestrated.

Small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows (not sash and case in arcade). Piended grey slate roof. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative hoppers. 3 tall decoratively corniced fluted chimney stalks to S wallhead.