Maitland Hotel, 29-37 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh

The Maitland Hotel, located at 29-37 Shandwick Place in Edinburgh, was originally designed by MacGibbon and Ross in 1876. This three-storey, three-bay building features a mansard attic and garret, showcasing a richly detailed mid-Victorian freestyle style.

The exterior includes a wrought-iron balustrade with a centrally placed stone balcony between the ground and first floors. Notable architectural elements include a cornice over the canted bays, a continuous string course between the first and second floors, and a cill course at the second floor. The central bay at the second floor has a consoled balcony, while the second floor also features a continuous cornice and a coped blocking course. The central attic bay has a corniced tripartite dormer topped with a pedimented garret, and the flanking attic dormers have corniced and finialled semicircular pediments.

The windows on the first and second floors of the central bays are round-headed. The first floor showcases swagged nook shafts and rosette architraves, while the second floor features engaged nook shafts, panelled pilasters, spandrels, and fluted architraves. The attic and garret windows are pilastered, and the canted bays at the first floor have swagged pilasters, with pilasters also present at the second floor.

The principal northwest elevation is symmetrical, with a three-light bay at the center flanked by three-light canted bays. The ground floor has modern shop fascias, a round-arched doorpiece with a crested console keyblock and a carved floriate architrave, and a deep-set timber panelled door. The first floor features a triple arched window, with the central light being taller, and a three-light window at the second floor. Above, there is a tripartite dormer with a centred pedimented garret. Each flanking bay has a three-light window on each floor, with a dormer window above that includes small flanking garret windows.

The southwest and northeast elevations are obscured by an adjacent building, while the southeast elevation was not visible as of 2000. The building predominantly features two-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate mansard roof, tall coped ashlar stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interiors have been converted into modern shops at the ground floor, with the upper floors remaining unseen since 2000.