Warehouse And Offices, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Dock Place, 1A, Leith, Edinburgh

This building, located at 2 to 11 Dock Place, Leith, Edinburgh, is a warehouse and office structure designed by engineer John Paterson around 1810. It is a symmetrical, four-storey and attic, twelve-bay warehouse with offices on the ground floor, which has now been converted into a tenement with commercial properties at the ground level. The exterior is made of coursed cream sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and a ground floor, featuring a string course above all floors and an ashlar blocking course below the eaves. The building has a regular arrangement of windows.

On the east elevation facing Dock Place, there is a four-storey, twelve-bay façade. The ground floor features an 18-bay engaged Ionic colonnade with a full entablature, where nine of the bays are made of fibreglass, replicating the northern originals at Nos 4-7, which were added in the early 1980s. The ends of the building are three bays each, closely spaced and slightly advanced from the ground level.

The south elevation presents a four-storey and attic, seven-bay gable end. The ground floor includes panelled doors with rectangular fanlights in the 2nd, 4th, and 5th bays. The central bays above have blind windows, and only the five central bays extend to the gablehead.

On the west elevation, there is a four-storey, eight-bay façade featuring warehouse doors and a pair of gable-headed dormer hoists in the inner third bays, which are being converted into windows. The ground floor is made of ashlar, and there are segmental-headed windows. Various alterations have been made at the ground level, including the addition of a single-storey piend-roofed range extending from and beyond the two left bays.

The north elevation consists of a four-storey and attic, six-bay façade, with the two centre bays slightly advanced. The ground floor has windows in the two centre bays, with a tenement door between them; the penultimate bay to the right features a restaurant doorpiece with engaged Ionic columns, along with a window to the right and windows in the two left bays. The inner bays of the main upper storeys are blank, while the attic has windows in the four central bays.

The building is fitted with 16-pane timber sash and case windows, topped with grey slates and ashlar coped skews, and features apex stacks.