Scottish Conservative Club, 111-112 Princes Street, Edinburgh

The Scottish Conservative Club, located at 111-112 Princes Street in Edinburgh, was designed by Robert Rowand Anderson between 1882 and 1884 and later reconstructed by Ketley, Goold & Clark with Simpson & Brown from 1978 to 1981. This substantial building features a four-storey and attic, five-bay Free Renaissance facade made of polished cream ashlar sandstone. The facade has architraved openings, and the ground floor was reconstructed to remove a later shop, reusing the original arched doorpiece framed by fluted pilasters and a rosette frieze. This doorpiece is flanked by pedestals with small cast-iron lamp standards and corniced doors, while the two left bays contain shallow canted plate glass shop windows.

On the first floor, there is a full-width consoled ashlar balcony with turned balusters. To the left, a canted window extends through the first and second floors, featuring a dentilled cornice and a balustraded parapet. The first-floor windows are pedimented, alternating between triangular and segmental shapes, while the second-floor windows are corniced with shaped aprons, and two of the right windows have consoled balustraded balconies.

The third-floor windows are shorter, and there is a sculpted festooned frieze along with a heavy modillioned cornice. The facade is topped with five pedimented dormers, and a glass curtain wall has been added to the east side.

The building has timber sash and case plate glass windows, and the roof is piended and platform with red tiles, featuring gables on the sides and a pedimented panelled ashlar stack on the east side.

Inside, the modern department store incorporates an original elaborate carved timber stair that turns around a two-storey arcade, though it has been moved to a different position. This area also includes three stained glass windows created by James Ballantyne and Son in 1884.