Hepburn House, 89 East Claremont Street, Edinburgh

Hepburn House was designed by Thomas Duncan Rhind and built 1911-12, with the drill hall extended in the early 1940s and the whole building refurbished in 2002. It is a 2-storey and basement, 11-bay, roughly rectangular plan, Free Renaissance style former drill hall. In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: the former hall at the rear.

Hepburn House is built of irregular squared sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar margins and details including a base course, cill course and eaves course. The central 5-bays are stepped forward with full height plain pilasters between each bay. There is a frieze with chunky squared off stonework and a triangular pediment above. There is 3-light canted bay at each end. The first floor windows rise above the eaves course and are corniced.

The windows are 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames. There is a slated mansard roof with coped ridge and end chimney stacks.

The interior, which was seen in 2015, has a number of plain cornices, timber and glazed doors leading from the hallway into the larger rooms and a simple timber chimneypiece in the original officers' room on the ground floor. The original lecture room (now divided into several smaller spaces) on the first floor, has a mutuled cornice.