28-30 Forrest Road, Edinburgh

28-30 Forrest Road in Edinburgh is a four-storey, bowed, Scots Baronial corner tenement block designed by William Urquhart in 1873. The building features finialled, gabled eaves with breaking dormers and includes extensive public house and shop spaces on the ground floor. The facade has five bays facing Forrest Road and seven bays on Teviot Place, with a central pavilion-roofed bay that has tripartite mullioned windows. It is constructed from squared and snecked stugged sandstone with polished dressings. A continuous cornice runs along the ground floor, although it has been removed at No 22 Teviot Place. There is a corbel table at the third floor, and the windows are framed in stop-chamfered, tabbed surrounds, with finialled, kneelered dormer heads for the third-floor windows that break the eaves.

On the west elevation facing Forrest Road, there is a shop on the outer left with segmental-arched openings. It features a two-leaf timber panelled storm door set in a lugged architrave with a dentilled cornice above and a small-pane glazed fanlight. Above this, there is a piend-roofed, three-storey canted bay to the left, and to the right, a timber panelled door with a segmental-arched fanlight and single windows above. The right side has a projecting three-bay section that is bowed at the outer right, with a conical-roofed bartizan at the canted corner on the left. The shop window to the left has Art Deco stained glass, while the public house features modern glazing and doors. A corbelled wallhead stack is located between the first and second bays to the left. The plain, pavilion-roofed single bay of the bow has tripartite windows and a consoled cornice with a ball-finialled pierced parapet at the ground floor.

The south elevation facing Teviot Place is regularly fenestrated with single and bipartite windows. The windows predominantly feature plate glass in timber sash and case frames, although some have been replaced with modern uPVC. The roof is a double pitch slate design, with corniced end and wallhead stacks topped with circular cans.