17 Duke Street, Edinburgh

17 Duke Street in Edinburgh is a corner tenement building designed by George Craig in 1898. It has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, with a shop located on the ground floor. The building is constructed from red sandstone, featuring polished ashlar on the main elevations, while the rear and side are rendered. It has a continuous cornice above the ground floor, a moulded band course above the first floor, and an eaves band with a cornice. The ground floor openings have stop-chamfered reveals, and there are casemates with glass bricks. The shopfront includes louvred stallrisers and shop windows with inter-war style border glazing, some of which have ornamental ventilation insets, along with original awning fittings.

The southwest elevation facing Duke Street has six bays, including a rounded corner bay on the outer right with a display window on the ground floor, a single window on the first floor, and a square projection on the second floor that rises from corbels, topped with a French pavilion roof featuring ornamental iron brattishing. The entrance to the shop is in the next bay, characterized by curved glazed ingoes and a tiled doorway marked "T Smith & Son," with single windows above. There is a secondary doorway on the outer left, and the remaining bays contain display and single windows. The mansard roof has three Velux rooflights.

The southeast elevation facing Academy Street has four bays, with two tall doorways on the right featuring two-leaf panelled doors and plate glass fanlights, one of which is marked "Lansbury Apartments." Above these doorways are bipartite windows on the first and second floors. The left bays have display windows, with single windows above, and there are two rectangular dormers.

The northwest rear elevation has irregularly spaced windows and two wallhead stacks. The building features four-pane timber sash and case windows, with timber infill at the top of the first-floor windows. The slate mansard roof has two wallhead stacks and moulded eaves gutters.

Inside, the shop features a heavily moulded ceiling with ornate plaster details and cornices.