28-30 Forrest Road, Edinburgh

William Urquhart, 1873. 4-storey, bowed, Scots Baronial corner tenement block with finialled, gabled eaves breaking dormers and extensive public house and shops to ground; 5 bays to Forrest Road, 7 bays to Teviot Place with pavilion-roofed bay with tripartite mullioned windows central bow. Squared and snecked stugged sandstone with polished dressings. Continuous cornice at ground floor (removed at No 22 Teviot Place); corbel table to 3rd floor. Windows in stop-chamfered, tabbed surrounds; finialled, kneelered dormer heads to 3rd floor windows breaking eaves.

W (FORREST ROAD) ELEVATION: shop to outer left: segmental-arched openings; 2-leaf timber panelled storm door in lugged architrave with dentilled cornice, small-pane glazed fanlight above; piend-roofed 3-storey canted bay to left above; timber panelled door with segmental-arched fanlight to right, with single windows above. Projecting 3-bay section to right, bowed to outer right, with conical-roofed bartizan at canted corner to left; Art Deco stained glass to shop window to left; modern glazing and doors to public house; corbelled wallhead stack between 1st and 2nd bays to left. Plain, pavilion-roofed single bay to bow with tripartite windows and consoled cornice with ball-finialled pierced parapet to ground floor.

S (TEVIOT PLACE) ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated with single and bipartite windows.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows, some modern uPVC replacements. Double pitch slate roof. Corniced end and wallhead stacks with circular cans.