33-41 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh

Peter L Henderson, 1899. 3-storey and attic, 5-bay, symmetrical, Free Renaissance style with French influence, former department store (now shop to ground floor only, 2007) with arcaded 1st floor and distinctive steep roofline. Polished ashlar. String course, dentilled cornice.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: central canted recessed entrance doorway to ground with timber and glass swing entrance doors. Some decorative iron mullions. Cornice.

Upper storeys with narrow strip pilasters dividing bays. Central 3 bays to 1st storey with segmental-arched, dentilled and key-stoned window openings with nook-shafts. Flanking small, round-arched window openings. 3-light windows to 2nd storey with stone mullions. Central gablet with semi-circular arched moulded window; flanking cat-slide 2-light dormers. Decorative iron brattishing to steep French pavilion roof.

Predominantly plate glass timber fixed and casement windows; sash and case to dormers. Plate glass to shop at ground. Grey slates. Raised skews.

INTERIOR: (seen 2007). Good, with original room plan and layout largely extant. Fine decorative plaster ceilings to ground floor with geometric and floral patterns. Decorative dentilled cornicing. Fluted Corinthian style columns to ground floor with simpler fluted columns to other floors. Open-well staircase with timber balusters and banister. Some decorative timber moulding to underside of stair.