15-19 Bristo Place, Edinburgh

15-19 Bristo Place is a four-storey and attic Scots Baronial corner tenement block, possibly designed by Robert Thornton Shiells and dated 1871. The building features shops at the ground level and has a total of four bays, with an additional three-storey and attic three-bay section facing Bristo Place and five bays facing Teviot Place. The corner is marked by a gabled canted bay flanked by engaged tourelles. The exterior is constructed from coursed stugged sandstone with raised and polished dressings.

The shops at ground level are pilastered and have a painted continuous cornice and fascia. There is a stepped string course at the attic floor, and the windows are framed in stop-chamfered, tabbed surrounds with long and short quoins.

On the northeast elevation facing Bristo Place, the three-bay lower section to the right is regularly fenestrated on the first and second floors. There is a single window with a pedimented dormer breaking the eaves on the outer right, and paired windows in a crowstepped and kneelered gable with an apex stack to the left. Carved panels are located between the left and center bays. The three bays to the left are also regularly fenestrated, featuring three single windows with pedimented dormers breaking the eaves. An engaged tourelle with a conical roof, weathervane, and fish-scale slates is situated on the outer left. The canted corner bay has bipartite windows, chequer-set machicolation at the third floor, a corbel table at the attic floor, and a carved panel in the kneelered gable.

The southeast elevation facing Teviot Place is regularly fenestrated on the first, second, and third floors, with bipartite windows in the center bay. An oriel window features rope-work on the corbel, long and short quoins, and a kneelered pediment with a carved panel at the attic on the outer left. Another engaged tourelle with a candle-snuffer roof, weathervane, and fish-scale slates is located on the outer right. There is a wallhead stack abutted by a small crowstepped window in the second bay from the left, and two pedimented gabled dormerheads breaking the eaves in the center.

The building predominantly has a four-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, grey slates on double-pitched roofs, and crowstepped skews. The stacks at the ends, ridge, and wallhead are corniced and feature circular cans.