53-61 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh

Reid & Forbes, 1937. 3-storey and attic, 7-bay, near-symmetrical Art Deco shop with Jazz Modern details. Polished black granite at ground floor; channelled sandstone ashlar at 1st floor; polished sandstone ashlar above; polished dressings. Coped cill course above shop fascia between ground and 1st floors; zigzag moulded cills to 2nd floor windows; band course, continues as transoms, becoming curvilinear hood over central bay at 2nd floor; cornice below coped blocking course at 2nd floor; stylised brackets below centred, bowed steel balustrade. Moulded margins spanning triple grouped windows at 1st floor.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: modern shop windows at ground floor with recessed modern entrance offset to left. Wrought iron shutters to canopied V-canted window at centre of 1st floor, stylised polygonal shafts flanking; small window with moulded surround and ornamental fleur-de-lys apron to centre of 2nd floor above. 3 slightly recessed windows flanking central bay to left and right at 1st floor; 3 windows, closely spaced, flanking central bay at 2nd floor. 6 evenly disposed corniced box dormers to mansard roof above.

SW AND NE ELEVATIONS: obscured by adjoining buildings.

SE ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

Shop windows at ground floor; aluminium-framed casement windows to 1st and 2nd floors; sash and case windows to dormers. Grey slate mansard roof; coped skews.

INTERIOR: fitted as modern shop at ground floor; unseen elsewhere.