89 George Street, Edinburgh

89 George Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey and attic Free Renaissance shop designed by Harry Ramsay Taylor in 1902. The building has a three-bay façade that projects from the street line. The ground floor is made of polished red granite, while the upper floors are finished in polished cream sandstone. The shopfront features plated glass set within an original granite basket-arched opening, framed by Ionic stop-fluted pilasters with bronze capitals. Above, a cornice supports a carved royal crest at the center.

The upper floors have a slightly recessed central bay, which includes canted mullioned and transomed windows on the first and second floors, and a tripartite window on the third floor, all behind a balustrade. The second-floor aprons are adorned with carved cartouches, while the third-floor windows are round-headed with blind balustraded aprons. A heavy bracketed cornice crowns the building. The attic features a central moulded depressed arched window topped by a large pediment with an oculus, surrounded by a carved frame, and flanked by consoles and finials.

The building has ashlar returns and plate glass casement windows. The ashlar coped skews, reduced stacks, and grey slates complete the exterior.

Inside, the shop spans all five floors and has been significantly modernised. The ground floor includes cornicing and a shallow arch with Corinthian columns leading to the rear of the shop, along with timber balusters on the stair.