35-39 Forrest Road, Edinburgh

35-39 Forrest Road is a four-storey, ten-bay Scots Baronial tenement block built in 1872. The building features an asymmetrical design with a canted bay at the corner of Forresthill and an advanced gabled block with a pend on the outer left. It is constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with polished dressings, although the ground floor is painted.

A continuous cornice runs along the ground floor, and there is a moulded string course between the second and third floors. The advanced four-bay block has pyramidal slated spirelets at the canted windows on the outer right. The ground floor includes a later pilastered limestone-faced shop front with black granite below the cills. To the outer right, there is a recessed glazed door with a plate glass fanlight flanked by black granite Doric columns. The first and second floors feature bipartite windows in the second bay from the right, while the third floor has a carved panel at the center. The attic has two timber dormers.

The central five-bay recessed block contains pilastraded shops, with foliated colonnettes remaining at No 39. No 35 has an Art Deco shop front with a recessed border glazed door, an inset marble step, and green marble facing, leading to a continuous cornice. The outer right and second bay from the left have timber panelled doors with plate glass fanlights in depressed-arched surrounds. The center has a piend-roofed tripartite canted window, and pedimented dormerheads break the eaves in the first and second bays from the left and the first bay from the right. There is a crowstepped dormerhead and bipartites in the second bay from the right.

The advanced gabled block on the left features a shoulder-arched pend on the ground floor with a four-leaf timber boarded studded door that has a decorative metal grille. The upper floors have bipartite windows, a carved panel between the first and second floors, and a small blind arrow slit in the crowstepped gable. A two-storey corbelled bartizan with a finialled slated conical roof and original curved glazing is located in the re-entrant angle.

The windows predominantly consist of plate glass in timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are corniced ridge stacks with circular cans.