Heritable Security Investment Co. Ltd, 123 George Street, Edinburgh

Peddie & Kinnear, 1880. 4-storey, 3-bay Greek revival terraced office. Cleaned cream ashlar sandstone. At ground, pair of square Doric porches with panelled square columns and solid parapets; to left with panelled door, to right with glazed infill; tripartite window between. At 1st floor, aedicules with carved tympana and timber bipartite windows; cill course. At 2nd floor, substantial cill course, moulded architraves, panels between windows; cornice consoled and projecting above windows. Glazed pilasters at 3rd floor with alternating broad and narrow pilasters; cill and cornice courses. Heavy overhanging cornice.

Rubble rear elevation partly obscured by modern extension to No 125 (see separate listing).

Timber sash and case plate glass windows. Pitched roof at front with piended M-roof to rear; grey slates.

INTERIOR: entrance Hall with elegant mosaic floor. Consoled doorway to former telling room at front; elaborate compartmented ceiling with central oval. Central stair with quarter landings and cast-iron banisters. Principal room at 1st floor with enriched Adam revival ceiling and Ionic columned chimneypiece. Remainder largely institutionalised, with links to adjoining Church of Scotland offices at Nos 119-121 at upper floors. Basement and lift.

RAILINGS: dwarf wall to basement area between porches, with decorative cast-iron railings.