31, 32-35 And 36-39 (Inclusive Numbers) Market Street, Edinburgh

31, 32-35, and 36-39 Market Street in Edinburgh are a range of former warehouses and offices built between 1890 and 1894, originally intended for fruit and vegetable brokering and wholesaling. They feature an unusual construction of steel plate and concrete floors.

31 Market Street is a single-storey and basement building with five bays and a flat roof, made of cream sandstone ashlar. It has two wide, three-centre-arched doorways (one of which has been converted into a window), two round-headed windows, and a similar door, all with set-back margins and separated by pilasters. The door on the far right serves as the entrance to 32 Market Street. The interior was converted into a themed visitor experience around 2000.

The buildings at 32-35 and 36-39 Market Street are two-storey and basement structures with 14 bays, also flat-roofed and made of cream sandstone ashlar. The ground-floor openings feature set-back margins and are mostly round-headed, including one three-centre-arched cart entry and two shop fronts with wooden fascias. The first-floor windows have raised margins and moulded, modillioned sills. There is a plain two-bay extension to the east that is carefully lined in.

The Market Street elevation has large four-pane timber sash and case windows, while the north elevation features timber casement windows, some of which are four-pane and some are blocked. The buildings also have a moulded cornice and tube and stanchion railings along the roof edge.

The interiors of 32-35 and 36-39, observed in 2015, have been converted for various uses, including offices, warehouses, and a nightclub since the late 1970s. Some early 20th-century glazed office partitioning remains in place on the first floor. The ground floor features cast iron riveted stanchion 'Phoenix' columns, which are circular in plan and arranged in a star pattern, with some still exposed. The floors consist of M-shaped steel plates supporting mass concrete flooring.