41 George Street, Edinburgh

41 George Street in Edinburgh is a building dating from around 1775, which underwent refacing and the addition of an extra storey in 1829 as part of a design by Thomas Hamilton. Further alterations were made by John Lessels in 1875 and Hippolyte Blanc in 1881, with major refurbishment and rebuilding carried out by the Hurd Rolland partnership between 1990 and 1993.

The structure consists of a dissimilar pair of four-storey, three-bay former classical houses, built out at the ground level and incorporating a basement. The exterior is finished in polished cream sandstone ashlar, which has been cleaned and includes some replacement stone. The ground floor features a unified projecting three-bay frontage, with the centre bay recessed and corner piers. It has a dentilled cornice and a balustraded parapet, while the right bay frames a plate glass office entrance. The centre and right bays are modern copies of the left bay.

On the first and second floors, there are architraved windows, with the centre windows on the first floor being canted and united with flanking windows by cornices. The eastern windows are slightly smaller and feature brattishing at the centre. The second floor has a moulded cill course on the western block. A dentilled cornice runs along the top, and the third floor has windows set in square recesses. There are also a pair of slate-hung piend-roofed dormers with canted corners.

The rear of the building has been extended and rebuilt. It features timber sash and case windows, with plate glass on the first floor and 12-pane windows above. The building has ashlar coped skews and corniced ashlar stacks, which have been rebuilt at the centre.

Inside, the building has modern commercial interiors, with a shop that includes elements of Blanc's design, which were largely rebuilt by the Hurd Rolland Partnership.