Ryrie's, Heymarket Terrace, Edinburgh

Principal block 1868, incorporating early 19th century building; remodelling at ground and interior 1906, Robert MacFarlane Cameron. W block 1862 with alterations 1868. 2-storey Baronial public house; main block with panelled Scottish Renaissance entrance and ground floor windows, latter with Art Nouveau stained glass. 1st floor breaking eaves. Lower 2-storey property to W. Squared, snecked and stugged sandstone with droved ashlar long and short dressings. Stop- chamfered arrises to windows at 1st floor of main block. Crowstepped gables. Base course.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-bay gabled end elevation. At ground, single storey timber 2-sided canted entrance bay with stop-fluted pilasters, fascia and consoled cornice; to right round-headed panelled 2-leaf door; to left pair of round-headed windows. Parapet with panelled dies. Window to each bay at 1st floor. Gablehead stack.

N ELEVATION: 3-bay. At ground large basket arched tripartite windows, timbers panelled aprons and multi- pane leaded lights above; separated by piers with stopped roll-moulding. Fascia and cornice continued from entrance, supported on squat bracketed panelled pilasters at impost level. RYRIE & CO BONDERS BLENDERS ESTB. 1862 applied to fascia in gilded letters; wrought- iron lamps between pilasters. 1st floor windows, gablehead dormers; centre bay bipartite, ball finial to gable.

Lower recessed 3-bay property to W, rendered and stugged as masonry. 2-leaf panelled door to centre bay at ground in roll-moulded shouldered frame; blind round- headed moulded panel above; gablehead stack; stack with masonry as main block above string course. Ground floor windows in flanking bays, raised margins; hopper, stained glass as before and multi-pane leaded lights above; 1st floor windows under eaves.

W ELEVATION: rubble built; single storey addition at ground. Single window to 1st floor at right.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay main block with corbel course to 1st floor. Ground floor obscured by shops to Dalry Road. At 1st floor, single windows; central window hard up against eaves, flanking windows with gablehead dormers. Earlier property to left with blank rubble wall; rooflight. At ground elaborate leaded stained glass windows proclaiming types of drinks available - SPIRITS, WINES, BRANDIES, CORDIALS, MCEWANS 80/, PALE ALE.

1st floor with timber sash and case windows and 4-pane glazing (plate glass to bipartites).

Grey slates; coped stacks; skewputts. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes, rainwater heads with date 1868.

INTERIOR (E section): good Edwardian decorative scheme. Timber panelled inner doors to lobby with small-pane leaded glazing with words 'Bar'; wrought brass handles. Timber-beamed ceiling. Curved timber-panelled bar counter with bolection moulded upper edge. Gantry with mirrors, columns and decorative brackets above capitals; cornice with clock at centre.