11 Annandale Street, Edinburgh

11 Annandale Street is a classical triple tenement block designed by Robert Brown in 1825. It features a symmetrical 9-bay, 3-storey elevation with a basement and attic facing Annandale Street. The ground floor is finished with smooth V-jointed rustication, while the upper floors are clad in polished ashlar, with droved ashlar on the basement and coursed squared rubble at the rear. There are dividing bands between the basement and ground floor, the ground and first floors, and cill bands at the first and second floors. A band course and main cornice separate the second floor from the attic, which also has a cill band, eaves cornice, and blocking course. The building has regular fenestration, with architraved windows on the first and second floors.

On the principal elevation, the central bay features a timber-panelled door with a multi-pane glazed letterbox fanlight, framed by a doorpiece of fluted Greek Doric columns and entablature. The third and seventh bays have timber panelled doors in round-arched openings, with sunk-panelled stone doorpieces and segmental fanlights that have a radiating glazing pattern. Steps and a platt lead up to each doorway, which overlooks the basement recess.

The glazing consists mainly of 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with 15-pane glazing in the first-floor windows. The pitched roof is covered with graded grey slates and includes stone skews and skewputts. There is one corniced, droved ashlar ridge stack at the center, one corniced, droved ashlar gablehead stack on the right, and one corniced, rendered wallhead stack at the rear.

The basement recess and platts are edged with stone copes, and the basement is topped with distinctive ornate cast iron railings.