Ryrie's, Heymarket Terrace, Edinburgh

Ryrie's, located on Heymarket Terrace in Edinburgh, is a two-story Baronial public house, primarily dating from 1868. An earlier building from the early 19th century was incorporated into the design, with significant remodelling of the ground floor and interior undertaken in 1906 by Robert MacFarlane Cameron. A western block was constructed in 1862, with subsequent alterations in 1868.

The main block features a panelled Scottish Renaissance style entrance, with ground floor windows incorporating Art Nouveau stained glass and extending beyond the first-floor level. To the west is a lower, two-story property. The building is constructed of squared, snecked, and stugged sandstone with dressed ashlar long and short elements. Window arrises on the first floor of the main block are stop-chamfered. Crowstepped gables and a base course are also present.

The east-facing (entrance) elevation is a two-bay gabled end, featuring a single-story, timber, two-sided canted entrance bay with stop-fluted pilasters, fascia, and consoled cornice. A round-headed, panelled, two-leaf door is flanked by a pair of round-headed windows, all set behind a parapet with panelled dies. First-floor windows are visible in each bay, and a gablehead stack is present.

The north elevation is three bays wide, with large, basket-arched, tripartite windows at ground level. These windows have timber-panelled aprons and multi-pane leaded lights. Piers, separated by a stopped roll-moulding, carry a fascia and cornice. “RYRIE & CO BONDERS BLENDERS ESTB. 1862” is applied in gilded letters to the fascia, with wrought-iron lamps positioned between the pilasters. First-floor windows and gablehead dormers are located above. A lower, recessed, three-bay property adjoins the west side, rendered and stugged to match the main masonry. A panelled, two-leaf door in a roll-moulded frame sits centrally at ground level, with a blind, round-headed moulded panel above.

The western elevation is of rubble construction, featuring a single-story addition at ground level and a single window to the first floor.

The south elevation’s three-bay main block has a corbelled course to the first floor. The ground floor is largely obscured by shops along Dalry Road. The first floor features single windows, with the central window directly under the eaves and flanking windows incorporating gablehead dormers. An earlier property to the left has a blank rubble wall and a rooflight, while ground floor windows display elaborate stained glass advertising drinks.

Timber sash and case windows with four-pane glazing are found on the first floor, with plate glass used in the bipartite windows.

The roof utilizes grey slates, with coped stacks and skewputts. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes, along with rainwater heads dated 1868, are also present.

The interior of the east section is notable for its good Edwardian decorative scheme, featuring timber-panelled inner doors with small-pane, leaded glazing to a lobby, including a door marked 'Bar'; wrought brass handles; a timber-beamed ceiling, a curved timber-panelled bar counter with bolection moulded upper edging; a gantry with mirrors, columns and decorative brackets above capitals, and a cornice featuring a clock at the center.