St Mary's Roman Catholic School, 35-37 Albany Street, Edinburgh

St Mary's Roman Catholic School, located at 35-37 Albany Street in Edinburgh, is an earlier 19th-century building that was reworked and extended by R T Currie in 1907, originally serving as St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School. It has undergone later alterations in 2001. The structure is two stories high with an attic and basement, consisting of a pair of three-bay classical houses at the end of the terrace on Albany Street. The exterior is finished in broached ashlar sandstone, featuring channelled V-jointed rustication at the principal floor, a base course, and band courses between the basement and principal floor as well as between the principal and first floors. There is a cill course at the first floor and a cornice at the first floor of the east elevation, along with a cornice and blocking course at the same level.

On the northern (principal) elevation, steps lead over the basement to round-arched doorways, which were reinstated in 2001 and adorned with decorative fanlights. The windows are regularly spaced, with cills raised at the first floor, and there is a flagged basement area. The attic features pairs of canted dormers, added in 2001.

The eastern elevation, facing York Lane, was altered in 1907 and again in 2001. It has a 12-bay entrance elevation on sloping ground, with a stepped corner to the outer right. The entrance features an architraved and corniced doorpiece, which includes a panelled lintel and brackets, topped by a six-pane window. To the right, there is a three-pane window with a semicircular fanlight, where an infilled door has chamfered margins. The central section has regularly spaced windows in five bays, with barred square windows located below the cills. A vehicular pend addition was made in 2001 to the left, featuring a truncated wall-head stack above. The first floor has regular fenestration, and box dormers are present.

The building predominantly features nine-pane timber windows, with slate-hung six-pane rectangular dormers on the east elevation. The roofs are covered in grey slate, with coped skews and a variety of stacks, which are coped and have circular cans. The cast-iron rainwater goods complete the exterior.

The property is enclosed by ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have spear-headed and urn finials.