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

Earlier 19th century, reworked and extended, R T Currie, 1907 (as former St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School) with later alterations (2001). 2-storey with attic and basement, pair of 3-bay classical houses at end of terrace in Albany Street. Broached ashlar sandstone; channelled V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; cill course at 1st floor; cornice at 1st floor of E elevation; cornice and blocking course at 1st floor.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: steps over-sailing basement to round-arched doorpieces (reinstated 2001) with decorative fanlights. Regular fenestration with cills raised at 1st floor. Flagged basement area. Pairs of canted attic dormers (2001).

E (YORK LANE) ELEVATION: 1907 (alterations, 2001). 12-bay entrance elevation, on falling ground, with stepped corner to outer right. Architraved and corniced doorpiece (masonry in-fill) including panelled lintel and brackets, surmounted by 6-pane window. 3-pane window to right with semicircular fanlight (infilled door with chamfered margins). Regularly spaced windows in 5 bays at centre; barred square windows below cills. Vehicular pend addition (2001) to left with truncated wall-head stack above. Regular fenestration at 1st floor. Box dormers.

Predominantly 9-pane timber windows. Slate-hung 6-pane rectangular dormers at E elevation. Grey slate roofs. Coped skews. Variety of stacks; coped, with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed and urn finials.