1, 3 Rutland Street, Edinburgh

A hotel of circa 1835 with later alterations, forming a prominent corner block at the junction of Rutland Street and Rutland Place in Edinburgh. The building comprises a principal 4-storey structure over basement, connected to a curved 3-bay astylar linking block and a further 3-storey, 3-bay astylar block to the south-west, which adjoins the former St Thomas' Church.

The principal corner block features giant Corinthian pilasters rising through the 1st and 2nd floors. The north-east elevation presents a tetrastyle arrangement looking down Princes Street, while the Rutland Place and Rutland Street elevations are treated as penastyles. The 3rd floor is divided into bays by Doric pilasters. The ground floor employs painted sandstone ashlar, with polished sandstone ashlar used above. Decorative elements include a base course, ground floor cornice, a cill course to the 2nd floor, and a string course with architrave and dentilled cornice at that level. A cornice and blocking course crowns the 3rd floor, with pilastered and corniced panelled tablets at the wallhead of two bays in the middle of the penastyle section to the north-west.

The north-east elevation facing Rutland Place features a modern bar frontage at ground level, with a recessed entrance containing a 2-leaf partially glazed wooden door with fanlight. The 3-bay block to the left incorporates a cornice to one window, a boarded architraved window to the centre, and a panelled timber door with bracketed cornice. A stone flight provides access from the basement. The tetrastyle block to the north-east includes a recessed entrance with a 2-leaf partially glazed wooden door and fanlight. Regular fenestration continues across the remaining bays and upper floors, as well as to all floors of the corner bow.

The south-east elevation on Rutland Street comprises a hexastyle, 3-storey, 5-bay block with attic to the right, its central three bays slightly advanced, and a recessed 2-storey and attic, 3-bay block to the left. The 5-bay block features a bar frontage built out at ground floor across three outer bays; a timber panelled door with large square fanlight to the left; and a bipartite window with consoled cornice to the outer left. Windows occupy each bay at the 1st and 2nd floors, with windows in three bays at the 3rd floor to the outer right. Paired corniced ashlar wallhead stacks with a uniting panel sit above the central bay, and a dormer window appears to the left. The 3-bay block to the left includes a stone L-plan flight leading to a tall consoled doorpiece at ground floor in the central bay, with a modern panelled timber door. A blind window occupies the 1st floor above. A stone flight to a basement door appears in the bay to the right, with blind windows at ground and 1st floors. A box dormer sits above. A blind window appears at each floor in the bay to the left, with a box dormer above.

Windows throughout display varied glazing patterns, including 2-pane and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is finished in grey slate with slate-hung dormers. Wallhead stacks are coped rendered with cylindrical cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present throughout.

The ground floor is fitted as a modern bar; the interior above has not been examined.

Decorative iron spear-headed railings surround the basement access on the north-west elevation and to the right of the south-east elevation. An incorporated lamp standard features scrolled shafts supporting a glass globe with drum well above, and has been converted to electricity. Replacement railings enclose the entrance to the left of the south-east elevation.