2, 4 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh

Sydney Mitchell & Wilson 1901, ground floor largely refaced by Tarbolton & Ochterlony 1938-40. Large Free Renaissance corner building, 4-storey and attic with ground floor shops and public house. Shandwick Place frontage broad 3-window, with wide curvilinear wallhead gable rising to shell-head, 3-window at attic, single oculus in cartouche at garret; Queensferry Street frontage public house, rusticated with two deeply moulded segmental arches with mullions and timber panelled entrance door within right arch. Above, 3 identical 2-bay windows 1st floor level each with 2-window curvilinear wallhead gable, swagged at the tympanum with square chimney block above. 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor windows with Gibbs surrounds and pulvinated friezes, large singles at 1st with alternate voussoirs projected and linking band of scrolls, 2nd and 3rd floor double-windowed with quintuple key blocks, those at 2nd with thin continuous apron and guttae. Slim single-windowed recessed quadrant corner, armorial cartouche over quintuple keyblocked 1st floor window, keyblocked architraved windows with cornices 2nd and 3rd, pilastered rotunda at attic rising to concave set-off with cartouche bearing peristyle cupola with distyle treatment between buttresses and ogee leaded roof with lucarnes, small lantern at top.

The interior of the public house was seen in 2007. Good quality early 20th century decorative scheme by Sydney Mitchell largely intact. Floor to ceiling tiled lobby with timber panelled part-glazed inner door. Timber panelling to dado and timber chimneypiece with over-mantle with mirror. Elaborate compartmented ceiling with deeply moulded cornice and plaster frieze with birds and swags of fruit. Timber panelled bar counter front. Ceiling-height gantry with segmental-arched pediments to sides and split pediment to centre with arched mirrors between slender Ionic columns; glazed cabinets below.

The interior of the former bank has not been seen but it is known to have a stained glass feature window, carved wooden figures representing each sign of the Zodiac and a painted ceiling by Henry Lintott in the former telling room of 1940.