97, 97A Princes Street, Edinburgh

1 Frederick Street in Edinburgh is a former classical tenement building from the later 18th century, featuring later additions. It stands three stories tall with an attic and is located on a corner site where shops occupy the ground floor, which includes a basement. The exterior is made of droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings, and it showcases long and short rusticated quoins along with a mutuled eaves cornice.

On the Princes Street elevation, the building has a four-bay design with a modern shop that has a canted corner. There are small decorative cast-iron balconies on the second-floor windows. The roof features two piend-roofed slate-hung box dormers with canted windows, which flank a smaller piend-roofed dormer at the center.

The Frederick Street elevation also has a four-bay gable on the right side, with a shop at ground level and a separate access door to the left. The first and second floors have blind windows in the center right bay. In the gablehead, there is a pair of attic windows. To the left, there is a two-bay wing that includes an early 20th-century three-bay shop at ground level, featuring large plate glass windows flanking a recessed central entrance. The first floor is built out with four mullioned and transomed windows that contain diamond leaded windows and stained glass insets, framed by panelled pilasters and an entablature. The building has a full-width piend-roofed slate-hung roof extension with two windows, one of which is smaller.

The windows throughout the building are timber sash and case, mostly 12-pane, with some alterations on the first floor. The roof features ashlar coped skews, rendered stacks, and grey slates.

Inside, there is a two-storey shop at 3 Frederick Street that retains some original rooms on the first floor, which include cornices, chimneybreasts, and Adam revival panelling and a chimneypiece. The first-floor rooms above the Princes Street shop are largely unaltered and feature carved stone chimneypieces and cornices.