Royal Lyceum Theatre, Grindlay Street, Edinburgh

CJ Phipps, 1883, with later alterations and extensions, including . 3-storey classical theatre; blocking course and mansard-roofed attic to 5-bays to Grindlay Street and 1st bay to left in Cornwall Street. cream-painted stucco, channelled to Grindlay Street and 1st bay to Cornwall Street. Dividing band between ground and 1st floors; modillioned eaves cornice. Giant Corinthian pilasters between bays from 1st floor. Later brick fly tower.

SW (GRINDLAY STREET) ELEVATION: slightly advanced 3-bay pedimented centrepiece: ground floor obscured by later glazed foyer (see Notes); corniced windows to 1st floor, aproned round-headed windows to 2nd; engaged Corinthian columns flank centre bay, Corinthian pilasters outer bays; ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE carved in blocking course; Diocletian window in moulded surround in pediment; pediment surmounted by lyre. Corniced windows in moulded surrounds to 1st floor in flanking bays; pedimented windows flanked by Corinthian pilasters to 2nd. Narrow windows flanked by Corinthian pilasters in outer bays.

SE (CORNWALL STREET) ELEVATION: slightly advanced bay to outer left: high base course; 2-leaf glazed timber door in round-arched surround flanked by channelled pilaster strips; corniced, aproned window to 1st floor, pedimented window flanked by small Corinthian pilasters to 3rd. Remaining bays (with mezzanine levels) plainly treated.

INTERIOR: glass foyer (see Notes) with ground floor arcade on channelled piers to rear. Marble-floored inner foyer; compartmented ceiling; decorative plasterwork with anthemions and urns; chimneypiece with pedimented mirror over; 2-leaf timber panelled doors to curved bar space. Auditorium: 3 horseshoe-shaped balconies supported by slim fluted cast-iron columns with gilded foliate capitals; 3 boxes to each side of proscenium at 1st balcony level, divided by cast-iron columns with Corinthian columns; decorative gilded plasterwork to circular roof, coffered ceiling, pilasters, balcony fronts and frame to consoled proscenium arch; painting in tympanum (Apollo and the Muses) by Ballard.