Brown's Bookshop, 57-61 George Street, Edinburgh

Circa 1775; subsequent additions and alterations. 3-storey and attic irregular 8-bay classical tenement with shops built out at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar (painted and rendered to W) with polished dressings. Channelled quoin strips at ends and centre. Modern corniced 3-bay shopfront to E, central door framed by slender columns with book capitals (Simpson and Brown, 1993) and fine earlier clock; common stair door (No 59) to centre right bay, with architrave and cornice; 2 matching later 19th century shops to W with mutuled cornice. Variety of 4 early bowed and later canted slate-hung piend-roofed dormers.

2 warehouses to lane; 4-storey 4-bay coursed rubble to E, and 4-storey 7-bay coursed rubble to W, with droved ashlar at ground, and later garage.

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass and 6-pane to E, 12-pane to W. Ashlar coped skew to W with rendered stack, lead coped with stack removed to E; stone stacks at centre; grey slates.

INTERIOR: No 57 extends to W at rear ground and across whole of 1st floor; consoled cornices at 1st floor (perhaps by Burn); top-lit saloon to rear. Shop at No 61 with earlier Ionic columns.