60 Queen Street, Edinburgh

60 Queen Street in Edinburgh is a classical tenement building dating from around 1790, with later additions. It stands four storeys tall and features an early 20th-century mansard attic on a corner site. The ground floor has well-preserved late 19th-century shops, which have been mostly combined into one, showcasing slender iron colonnettes and a cornice. The building is constructed of droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings and has long and short rusticated quoins.

On the Queen Street elevation, there are five bays. The two right windows on the third floor have lowered cills and decorative cast-iron balconies. The eaves cornice is mutuled, and the mansard attic includes a canted corniced dormer at the hipped corner, along with additional single and tripartite dormers to the right.

The Castle Street elevation features a four-bay gable, with the doorpiece removed from the two left bays at ground level, obscured by the built-out shops.

The building has timber sash and case windows, with plate glass in 6- and 12-pane configurations. The skews are ashlar coped, and there are rendered stacks topped with grey slates.

Inside, the shop and restaurant areas have been significantly altered. All flats are accessed via a central corridor. The modernised first-floor flat has an apsidal-ended room facing Queen Street, featuring a grey marble chimneypiece. The second-floor flat is notable for its Gothick glazing in the corridor, panelled dados, a grey marble chimneypiece in the three-bay corner room, and black slate in the two-bay west room, which includes a sideboard recess that backs onto a bed recess in the adjoining room. There are further timber chimneypieces throughout. A similar third-floor flat also has panelled dadoes and grey marble and black slate chimneypieces, which were installed in the 1990s and include astragals.