40-43 Argyle Place, Edinburgh

John C Hay, dated 1875. 4-storey with attic, Scots Baronial corner tenement with shops at ground floor, part of terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Cornice above shops; corbel table at 3rd floor forming segmental-arched hoods to 2nd floor windows, extended down at 4th bay on Argyle Place to form hood to 1st floor window; crowstepped gables; long and short quoins; raised and lugged window surrounds; chamfered reveals.

E (ARGYLE PLACE) ELEVATION: 5-bay above shops (for corner bay see N elevation). 2 shopfronts to outer left with cast iron columns and capitals; remaining shopfronts altered. Bipartite windows in bay to outer left; round-arched single window in gablehead. Bipartite windows in 4th bay, advanced at 2nd and 3rd floors and attic; round-arched windows and circular "RW 1875" monogram in gablehead. Single windows in remaining bays with gabled and finialled dormer with round-arched bipartite window.

N (ARGYLE PARK TERRACE) ELEVATION: 3-bay architraved doorway to shop at ground floor; shopfront altered. Slightly recessed bowed corner bay to outer left breaking eaves in towerhead with conical roof; bipartite windows at 1st and 2nd floors, 1st floor window corniced and plaster flanked; single window at 3rd floor; pedimented and finialled dormer window at attic; conical roof with finial. Single windows in remaining bays; round-arched bipartite window in gablehead.

4-pane and plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced gablehead and mutual gable stacks; moulded cans; gabletted skewputts to E and beaked to N; some original rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1990.