Free Church Of Scotland College And Offices, 15 North Bank Street, Edinburgh

1723-7, with alterations by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, 1901. 7-storey and attic 4-bay office building with central crowstepped 2-window nepus gable and tall finialled conical-roofed angle turrets with arrowslit windows; 5 storeys, attic and basement to rear. Rubble with polished dressings (harled to rear). Corniced architraves to windows. Regularly fenestrated (small windows to 6th and attic storeys). 2-leaf timber panelled door (2-leaf glazed inner door with decorative fanlight) in key-blocked round-arched surround in pilastered and corniced doorpiece with decorative carving and strapwork over (see Notes).

REAR (JAMES COURT) ELEVATION: taller 2-window crowstep-gabled block to centre with apex stack; 3 bays to right, 4 bays to left; timber boarded door with small-pane glazed fanlight in roll-moulded surround to outer right. Cast-iron railings to basement area.

INTERIOR: corniced timber panelling, decorative plaster frieze and compartmented ceiling to vestibule. Corniced timber panelling to College Dining Room (see Notes); bolection-moulded timber chimneypiece framed by pilastered and pedimented aedicule; geometrically compartmented plasterwork to ceiling. Senate Hall: compartmented plaster ceiling (probably concealing fireprooof construction); 2 decorative timber chimneypieces with cast-iron inserts; glazed timber book-cases.

2-pane upper, plate glass lower sashes in timber sash and case windows; small-pane glazing to attic windows. Rendered stacks.