22, 24, 26, 28, 30 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh

22, 24, 26, 28, 30 Shandwick Place is a four-storey and attic, six-bay Free Renaissance tenement and commercial building, designed by Hamilton Beattie between 1876 and 1877, with later conversions by Frank Simon in the 1890s. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar. The ground floor features later commercial premises, except for an off-centre doorpiece that has a bracketed segmental pediment and a carved tympanum depicting reclining figures with a coat of arms above.

There is a cornice and blocking course over the ground floor, which is dentilled to the right. The building has full-height canted flanking bays at the first, second, and third floors, supported by channelled pilasters. Cill courses are present at the second and third floors. The eaves are decorated with an entablature that includes a swagged frieze and a dentilled mutule cornice. The parapet above is interrupted by wallhead dormers; the central dormer is pedimented and finalled, while the outer bays have pilastered segments with segmental pediments.

The first floor features bipartite windows in the centre with deep bracketed hoodmoulds, while the flanking windows are round-headed and set within corniced raised panels. The second floor has round-headed corniced and pilastered windows, and the third floor has architraved windows. The building predominantly has plate glass in timber sash and case windows. The roof is a double pitch M-section covered with grey slates, and there are corniced ashlar end stacks and straight skews.