7, 8 And 9 North Bank Street, Edinburgh

7, 8, and 9 North Bank Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey and attic tenement building designed by John Gershom Adams between 1895 and 1896, incorporating earlier elements. The structure features six bays with Jacobean details, including shops at the ground floor with a balustraded parapet, two-storey oriel windows on the second and third floors, a mansard roof, gabled dormers in the attic, and a finialed bartizan at the corner. The building is constructed of ashlar stone, with rubble and ashlar dressings on the side and rear. The western section includes three bays from the late 18th century, with later additions by Adams, while the eastern section and the shops were built by Adams.

On the North Bank Street elevation, the shops have plate glass windows supported by Ionic timber colonnettes featuring thistle details. The central door to the flats is topped with a plate glass fanlight. The three bays to the left display channelled pilaster strips, stone mullioned windows on the first floor, a finialled shaped gable with a tripartite dormer window, and a heraldic shield in the gable. The three bays to the right feature shoulder-arched surrounds to the first-floor windows, a crenellated parapet on the oriel, and a finialled pediment above the tripartite mullioned dormer.

The rear elevation, facing Wardrop's Court, consists of a regularly fenestrated gabled left block and a mansard-roofed right block that is irregularly fenestrated. This right block has paired windows on the ground, first, and second floors to the left, and a two-window gabled dormer breaking the eaves above. Windows are also present in the re-entrant angle.

The building predominantly features plate glass in timber sash and case windows, with grey slate roofing. A corniced apex stack with circular cans is present on the 18th-century block at the rear, along with stone skews.