40-43 Argyle Place, Edinburgh

40-43 Argyle Place in Edinburgh is a four-storey building with an attic, designed in the Scots Baronial style by John C Hay and dated 1875. This corner tenement features shops on the ground floor and is part of a terrace. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a cornice above the shops, a corbel table at the third floor that creates segmental-arched hoods over the second-floor windows, and crowstepped gables. The building also has long and short quoins, raised and lugged window surrounds, and chamfered reveals.

On the east elevation facing Argyle Place, there are five bays above the shops. The outer left features two shopfronts with cast iron columns and capitals, while the other shopfronts have been altered. The outer left bay has bipartite windows, and there is a round-arched single window in the gablehead. The fourth bay has bipartite windows that are advanced at the second and third floors and in the attic, with a round-arched window and a circular monogram "RW 1875" in the gablehead. The remaining bays have single windows, and there is a gabled and finialled dormer with a round-arched bipartite window.

The north elevation, facing Argyle Park Terrace, features a three-bay architraved doorway to a shop at the ground floor, which has been altered. There is a slightly recessed bowed corner bay on the outer left that breaks the eaves with a towerhead and conical roof. This corner bay has bipartite windows on the first and second floors, with the first-floor window being corniced and flanked by plaster. A single window is present on the third floor, and there is a pedimented and finialled dormer window in the attic. The conical roof has a finial, and the remaining bays have single windows, including a round-arched bipartite window in the gablehead.

The building features 4-pane and plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, a corniced gablehead, and mutual gable stacks. It has moulded cans, gabletted skewputts to the east, and beaked skewputts to the north, with some original rainwater goods still in place. The interior was not seen in 1990.