139-141 Lothian Road, Edinburgh

125 Lothian Road is a building designed by William Burn, constructed between 1825 and 1827. It is an almost symmetrical four-storey block of tenements featuring advanced pavilion ends, with modern shops located on the ground floor and flats above.

The west elevation facing Lothian Road has 19 bays in the center, with advanced seven-bay blocks at either end, including one window on the quadrant at Bread Street. The building is finished in polished ashlar and includes a cill course at the first floor, an eaves cornice, a blocking course, and a parapet on the end blocks. The center section has five windows at the first floor, which are corniced, and there are cast-iron balconies on the second and third floor windows. The common stair entrance features timber panelled doors with a border-glazed fanlight, flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters, and is topped with a dentilled cornice and a segmental pediment on scrolled consoles.

The north elevation on Bread Street has two advanced bays to the right, with a cill course at the first floor, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. To the left, there are five bays, with modern shops on the ground floor.

The south elevation on East Fountainbridge features blind windows on the first, second, and third floors of the return of the end block to Lothian Road, along with a cill course at the first floor, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. There is a single-storey bank on the corner, currently Lloyds TSB Scotland, at the ground floor, which includes a base course, a deep block-modillioned cornice, and a parapet. The entrance is located on the quadrant and features a modern glazed door in an arched doorpiece flanked by Ionic columns on pedestals, with an entablature extending to Doric pilasters at the bay edge. A decorative mosaic in the apse reads 'Thrift is Blessing,' and there are modern arcaded plate glass windows. The East Fountainbridge elevation has seven regularly fenestrated bays, with modern shops at the ground floor.

The flats above feature a mixture of 12-pane and plate glass in timber sash and case windows on the first, second, and third floors. The building has corniced stacks with circular cans, although the roof was not visible.