Sandy Bells, 25 Forrest Road, Edinburgh

R Thornton Shiells, 1872, earlier building to N incorporated and altered, 1891 by R Thornton Shiells & Thomson 4-storey and attic, 11-bay asymmetrical block of Baronial tenements with shops and public house to ground floor (4 bays to Forresthill). Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with polished dressings (painted to ground). Base course; continuous cornice to shops (not including Nos 7 and 9; bracketed to public house); string course stepping up over windows at 1st floor (not including Nos 7 and 9); corbel table at 3rd floor. Long and short quoins. Stop-chamfered openings to ground floor; tabbed surrounds to windows at 1st and 2nd floors; timber panelled doors with plate glass fanlights to flats. Finialled crowstepped gables to dormerheads breaking eaves at 3rd floor.

E (FORREST ROAD) ELEVATION: angle turret with conical slated roof to outer right; balustered balcony to corner at 2nd floor below. Gable to 2nd and 3rd bays from right. Bipartites in 3rd bay from right with carved panel in gable above. Corbelled central wallhead stack with chequer-set machicolations and carved panel to centre, flanked by single windows with gabletted dormerheads. Angled bipartites in 5th bay from left, with chequer-set machicolations to gabled dormerhead. Canted window with swept corbelled gable in 4th bay from left. Wallhead stack flanked by single windows with gabletted dormerheads in 2nd and 3rd bays form left; finialled timber dormers to attic. Full-height canted window at outer left, with chequer-set machicolations to gabled 3rd floor, with bracketed cill to segmental-arched bipartite and carved panel in gable; small timber dormer to facetted slated corner spire. 2-leaf timber panelled storm door and glazed inner door to public house on canted corner.

S (FORRESTHILL) ELEVATION: wallhead stack with chequer-set machicolations and carved panel to outer right. Gable with wallhead stack to centre. Gabletted dormerhead breaking eaves to left.

INTERIOR (SANDY BELL'S BAR): timber bar and corniced gantry with mirrored shelves and clock; broken pedimented arch to rear; timber panelling and settles.

Predominantly 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced stacks with circular cans.