Scotsman Newspaper Offices, 26, 28, 30 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh

The Scotsman Newspaper Offices, located at 26, 28, and 30 Cockburn Street in Edinburgh, were designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear and built between 1859 and 1861, with a rear enlargement completed in 1867. This four-storey and attic building features a symmetrical four-bay Gothic and Baronial style, characterized by its narrow frontage and deep plan. The structure has twin crow-stepped gables, each with paired bays set within Gothic-arched recesses that are framed by angle pilasters and nookshafts.

The ground floor is constructed of ashlar, while the upper levels are made of squared and lightly stugged sandstone with polished dressings. There are string and cill courses at the first, second, and third floors, which continue around to the Anchor Close elevation. The openings are surrounded by roll-moulded, stop-chamfered surrounds. The shopfronts are mirrored, featuring stone-mullioned windows in segmental-arched recesses, and there is an original timber panelled door to the left with a plate glass fanlight above. A trefoil-pierced balcony is located on the first floor, and below the second-floor windows is a carved SCOTSMAN masthead.

The second floor has segmental-arched windows adorned with carved thistles, shamrocks, and roses, while the third floor features shoulder-arched windows. The attic has basket-arched windows, and decorative iron window guards are present on the first, second, third, and attic floors. A chimney breast is corbelled out to the center at the second floor, displaying a heraldic shield featuring a lion rampant with the motto "IN DEFENCE" below the stack.

The windows are fitted with four-pane glazing in timber sash and case style. The building has corniced end stacks with circular cans, and there is a gabletted wallhead stack situated between the gables.