1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 Montgomery Street, Edinburgh

George Beattie and Sons, 1885. Classical, near-symmetrical wedge-plan building with steep mansard roof on sloping corner site; 4-storey and attic; 5-bay principal corner elevation; 4-bay elevation to Elm Row; 4-bay elevation to Montgomery Street. Polished ashlar (predominantly out-of-character cladding to ground floor; coursed squared rubble with dressed margins to rear). Slightly projecting shops with cornice and blocking course to ground floor; cill course to 3rd floor. Predominantly regular fenestration; modern shopfronts to ground floor; architraved windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor (not to canted bays); segmental-headed dormers.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay slightly bowed section to centre, flanked to left and right by canted single bays on return to Elm Row and Montgomery Street; to centre, canted bay window from 1st to 3rd floors. Dividing band between 1st and 2nd floors; cill course to 1st and 2nd floors; cornice between 2nd and 3rd floors and between 3rd and attic floors; parapet with base course and cornice. To outer left and right bays, flanking channelled pilasters to 1st and 2nd floors; panelled pilasters to 3rd floor. To attic floor: to central bay, tripartite window with pilastered mullions, clasped in wallhead stacks with continuous cornice, surmounted by ornate panel and segmental pediment; dormer windows breaking parapet to outer right and left bays.

NW (ELM ROW) ELEVATION: to 3rd bay from left, canted bay window from 1st to 3rd floor. Corniced windows to 1st and 2nd floors (excluding canted bay); dividing bands between 1st and 2nd floors and 2nd and 3rd floors to canted bay. Eaves cornice; blocking course to canted bay. To attic, dormers to 1st 2nd and 4th bays from left; to 3rd bay from left, tripartite window with extended cill course clasped between wallhead stacks.

SE (MONTGOMERY STREET) ELEVATION: to ground floor, between 2nd and 3rd bays, timber-panelled door with letterbox fanlight and architraved doorpiece with keystone; to 3rd bay from left, canted bay window from 1st to 3rd floor. Corniced windows to 1st and 2nd floors (excluding canted bay); dividing bands between 1st and 2nd floors and 2nd and 3rd floors to canted bay. Eaves cornice; blocking course to canted bay. To attic, dormers to 1st, 2nd and 4th bays from left; to 3rd bay from left, tripartite window with extended cill course clasped between wallhead stacks.