16 South Fort Street, Edinburgh

16 South Fort Street in Edinburgh is a corner tenement building dating from around 1810, with an early 20th century bar front. It stands three stories tall and features five bays, with a projecting bar at the ground level. The main elevations are constructed of coursed cream sandstone, with cill courses on the upper floors, polished ashlar at the ground level and along South Fort Street, and rubble on the secondary elevations. The building has a regular arrangement of windows.

On the south elevation facing South Fort Street, there are five bays with a cornice at the eaves. The inner left bay is blind and features a shouldered wallhead stack. The ground level has a flat-roofed bar with narrow panelled pilasters that support an entablature; the upper section is glazed, and there is a base course.

The north elevation facing Trafalgar Lane has four bays, with a gable on the three left bays that includes an apex stack. The two left bays are blind. At the ground level, there is a return bay of the bar on the left, with the facade continuing over the two left bays, which include a deep-set door and window. To the right, there are two doors with rectangular plate glass fanlights, one of which is deep-set, along with a large window.

The west (rear) elevation is very irregular, featuring a blank gable to the left with a broad apex stack. The south (side) elevation has a blank gable to the right, also with a broad apex stack.

The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, grey slate roofing, ashlar coped skews, and coped rubble stacks, one of which is rendered. Inside, the bar features dentilled cornices and a gantry bar.