1-9 Barclay Place, Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh

11-19 Barclay Place is a four-storey, eight-bay tenement block built in 1885 by Thomas Purves Marwick, showcasing a bold Free Renaissance/Queen Anne style. The building features shops on the ground floor and is constructed from grey sandstone ashlar. The bays are grouped in gabled pairs that step up from north to south, with decorative mouldings on the windows of the first, second, and third floors, becoming progressively less ornate.

The west elevation facing Barclay Place has a complete set of largely intact shop fronts, which are separated by slender, decoratively panelled pilasters. The shop entrances have timber panelled doors with border-glazed fanlights leading to the stairwell. Above the shops, there is a mutuled cornice, and a deep cornice separates the second and third floors. The gabled pairs of bays feature mirrored pairs of bipartite windows in the outer bays. Giant Corinthian pilasters with decorative shafts frame the outer bays and the centre, topped with ball-finials and roundels at the ends of the gables. The inner two bays are flanked by tall, corniced, scalloped chimney shafts that rise from the third floor, with carved panels below displaying the date "1885" on the right and the initials "AC" (for Alexander Calder, the builder/developer) on the left. The pedimented gables contain key-blocked oeil-de-boeuf windows with decorative treatments at the apexes.

The flats have timber sash and case windows, featuring two-pane glazing in the upper sashes and plate glass below. The roof is covered with grey slates and has stone skews. There are tall, corniced ashlar chimney stacks with circular cans located at the roof ridge, at the gable ends, and on the front elevation.