Hall, 11-23 Morningside Drive, Edinburgh

This building is a hall located at 11-23 Morningside Drive in Edinburgh, designed by George Beattie & Son in 1888. It features an Edwardian Baroque style and is now known as Mason's Hall. The structure has a French pavilion roof and includes shops at the street level. It is a 5-bay, 2-storey building with an attic, and the entrance bays at each end contain stairs leading to the hall on the first floor. The eastern entrance bay is slightly advanced as the street turns the corner. The first floor is constructed of rock-faced squared and snecked rubble, with red sandstone ashlar dressings.

On the ground floor, the shopfronts have been altered but still retain their cornice and original structural frame. The end bays feature entrances to Nos 11 and 23, which have lugged architraved doorways with stylised scrolls at the inner angles and consoled swan-neck pediments above, framing plain fanlights.

The first floor showcases three large mullioned and transomed hall windows at the center, with a moulded cill course above rock-faced rubble apron panels. Channelled rusticated pilasters flank the end stair bays, and there are mullioned stylised classical bipartite windows at the mezzanine level in the end bays, featuring disc roundels in the frieze. Small 2-pane sash and case windows are located at the upper part of the bipartites, above rubble apron panels. The decorative frieze in the end bays is elaborate, with a leaded oculus window at the center framed by festoon swags and sculpted panels above the pilasters. The wallhead cornice is present, and the steeply-pitched French roofs are slated in polychrome with horizontal bandings and diamond details at the end bays. There is an architraved pedimented dormer at the center, flanked by a pair of French roundel dormers, and separate pavilion roofs over the stair bays. The ridge brattishing has been lost, and there are end stacks. The rear elevations are plain.

Inside, there are two stone staircases located in the end bays. The principal rooms have been subdivided, except for the hall, where some heavily moulded plaster cornices remain in the subsidiary rooms. Ionic-columned mural panelling is present at the west end of the hall, presumably introduced by the Freemasons. The gallery opposite has been enclosed as of 1991, but the panelled balcony front still survives.