31, 32, 33, 34 Argyle Place, Edinburgh

31, 32, 33, 34 Argyle Place is a baronial corner tenement block built around 1875, featuring four storeys and an attic, with shops on the ground floor. The building is constructed of squared and snecked sandstone, accented with polished ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a cornice above the shops, a corbel table at the third floor that extends down to the second floor for two bays on both main elevations, crowstepped gables, an eaves cornice, long and short quoins, and chamfered reveals.

On the south elevation facing Roseneath Terrace, the ground floor has advanced altered shopfronts with segmental-arched openings and a lintel with a foliate cornice. The building has four bays under two gables, with a near-blank bay featuring a round-arched window in the attic to the outer right. The outer left bay has bipartite windows in a corbelled panel at the third floor, topped with a cornice and a finialled French pavilion roof. The remaining bays have single windows that are regularly spaced.

The east elevation facing Argyle Place also has altered shopfronts at the ground floor with segmental-arched openings, and the original cast-iron capitals are encased. This elevation has five bays, with a sixth recessed bowed corner bay above the shops to the left. The corner bay features bipartite windows, a deep cornice, and a conical roof with a round-arched gable dormer. The inner right bay has bipartite windows, and a third-floor window breaks the eaves in a crowstepped dormer head. The remaining bays contain single windows, with a round-arched window in the gablehead to the outer left, and third-floor windows in the third and fifth bays breaking the eaves in finialled pedimented dormer heads.

The building features 4-pane sash and case glazing, a grey slate roof with lead flashing, a corniced wallhead, gablehead, and mutual stacks, along with moulded cans and some original rainwater goods.

The interiors of the shops include elaborate decorative plasterwork and capitalled cast-iron columns, while the tenements were not seen during the 1990 inspection. A low saddleback wall with cast iron railings borders the property along Roseneath Terrace.