125 George Street, Edinburgh

125 George Street in Edinburgh is a former terraced classical house built around 1785. It has undergone several alterations, including additions to the rear by Robert Matheson in 1856 and George Morham in 1898, with further rebuilding in the 1980s. The building is three stories high with an attic and basement, featuring a four-bay façade made of droved cream ashlar sandstone and an ashlar basement. The ground floor displays square cut rustication, and to the right, there are steps leading to an arched tripartite doorpiece. This doorpiece is adorned with a decorative semicircular metal fanlight, framed by Roman Doric pilasters and a cornice. The first floor has a moulded cill course and a band course above, along with a cornice and three modern canted piend-roofed dormers.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes. The building features ashlar coped mutual skews and stone stacks, topped with grey slates.

Inside, the entrance hall has a simple enriched ceiling, a former stove niche, and a decorative corniced overdoor leading to the stairhall, which has a replacement door. There is a set of fine plaster figure panels on the walls and a slapping to the former dining room, along with an enriched panelled fanlight arch. The cantilevered stone stair includes quarter landings and plain square banisters. The upper walls are decorated with trophy and musical panels, a frieze with festoons and rosettes, and a diamond-paned frieze to the skylight. Plaster decoration at the first-floor landing is likely from the 19th century, and there are corniced shaped overdoors with medallions and a swagged frieze to the cornice. The former drawing room has not been seen since 1995.