Edinburgh College Of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

J M Dick Peddie, 1906-9. Two-storey and attic, symmetrical Beaux Arts school of art with mansard-roofed angle pavilions; later alterations and additions. Red sandstone ashlar. Ground floor channelled from cill height; dividing band between ground and first floors; Doric frieze with triglyphs and guttae; broad mutuled eaves cornice. Key-blocked windows to ground floor.

South (principal) elevation: mansard-roofed centre pavilion with oeil-de-boeuf windows in roof; pedimented tetrastyle Roman Doric portico; two-leaf timber panelled door with semicircular plate glass fanlight in heavily key-blocked round-arched opening; glazed inner door with fanlight. Eight-bay linking blocks, regularly fenestrated (outer left bay has large two-leaf door with glazed panel above). Corner pavilions: paired windows to each floor flanked by giant Roman Doric columns and corner pilasters; stepped blocking course above.

West elevation: corner pavilions: paired windows to each floor flanked by paired Doric pilasters (channelled pilaster strip to outer left). Single storey, five-bay balustraded linking block, regularly fenestrated (glazed door to outer left).

North elevation: segmentally-pedimented mansard-roofed central block. Six-bay linking blocks with large windows and rooflights to studios. Pedimented corner pavilions with paired windows to each floor flanked by channelled pilaster strips; key-blocked oeil-de-boeuf windows in pediments.

East elevation: mainly obscured by later additions.

Interior: coffered Doric-columned entrance hall leading to double-return stair with stone balustrade lit from lunette windows and octagonal cupola; paired Ionic columns and pilasters at first floor. Top-lit double-height (and double-cube) sculpture court: key-consoled arcade at ground floor supports first floor gallery with paired Ionic columns. Large-windowed studios on three floors to north.

Predominantly six-pane metal-framed windows. Green slates. Tall chimneystacks with triglyphed frieze and cornice.

Retaining Walls, Gatepiers and Railings: bull-faced squared and snecked red sandstone retaining walls with ashlar parapet. Tall red sandstone channelled ashlar gatepiers with mutuled cornice and ball finials; low flat-arched footgate with heavy key-console to left; EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART in metal letters above. Decorative cast iron gates and gateposts.

In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: former Architecture School Building.