Warehouse, 17-18 John's Place, Edinburgh

This substantial six-storey warehouse, designed by Robert MacFarlane Cameron in 1898, is located at 17-18 John's Place in Edinburgh. The building features a splayed corner and is constructed from cream sandstone, with coursed and squared rubble and droved ashlar dressings on the southeast and northeast elevations, while the rear is made of squared and snecked rubble.

The southeast elevation, facing John's Place, has nine bays. The five bays on the left are slightly recessed and feature a corbel course above the second floor. The central bay has a large segmental-arched doorway with a hoodmoulding that steps over a blank panel and block label stops. There are bipartite windows and a gablehead above this doorway, along with a tall bipartite transomed window to the right of center. There are secondary doorways in the next bay and to the outer left, with single windows in the remaining bays. The four bays to the right have rusticated quoins, a secondary doorway to the left of center, and a large gablehead over the two center bays.

The northeast elevation, facing St James's churchyard, consists of seven bays, with the three center bays slightly recessed and featuring bipartite windows. The remaining bays have single windows.

The northwest elevation, which is the rear, has six bays, with two bays on the left slightly advanced. Each bay and floor has single windows.

The warehouse has barred timber casement windows and a piend and platform slate roof with metal flashings, along with cast-iron cresting along the ridge of the gables. It features a moulded eaves gutter and ornamental gutterheads.

Inside, there are cast-iron columns with bell capitals, some timber floors, and the floor levels have been partly altered. The roof is mostly flat and covered with asphalt.