30, 32, 34, 36 Home Street, Edinburgh

This is a four-storey and attic tenement block designed by Dunn and Findlay in 1897, located on Home Street, Edinburgh. The building is symmetrical in design, featuring ogee-roofed corner towers and canted bays rising from the first floor, with shops on the ground floor and flats above. A cinema was originally located in the rear courtyard.

Constructed from polished yellow sandstone ashlar, the building features a prominent cornice band between the ground and first floors, incorporating an egg and dart moulding on its underside. Cill courses are present at the first and second floors, and an eaves cornice completes the exterior detailing. Windows are set within moulded surrounds, with cornices at the first floor and projecting cills at the third. The roof is mansard style, with dormer windows in the attic; these feature segmental pediments over single windows and piend roofs over stone-mullioned bipartite windows. Scalloped parapets adorn the canted bays.

The Cameo Cinema, located in the back courtyard, retains its original interior. This includes a lobby with original 1914 terrazzo flooring and original ticket booths (one with its ticket machine). The foyer has undergone some later alterations, but still features original moulded plasterwork and cornicing embellished with gilded rococo scrolls and cherub heads. The auditorium showcases a baroque interior with raked seating flanked by arcades of reeded Ionic columns surmounted by caryatids, alongside further ornate plasterwork and panelling.

The tenement exhibits regular fenestration with mullioned bipartite and tripartite windows positioned between the canted bays. A timber-panelled door with plate glass fanlight is situated within a depressed-arched moulded surround featuring a Mannerist mask carved on the key-block on the Home Street elevation. Wallhead stacks are present on the Lochrin Terrace and Lochrin Place elevations.

Entrances to the corner shops are framed by round-arched surrounds with stop-chamfered edges and scrolled key consoles. These lead to bowed, three-light windows at the first and second floors, polygonal designs at the third and attic levels. Decorative carved detail is visible between the windows at attic level. The bank at No. 26 retains two-leaf timber-panelled storm doors with an arched fanlight and a glazed timber inner door within a moulded timber surround. Decorative moulded pilasters are retained between some of the shops. No. 40 retains a deep-set door with decorative tiles to the floor and Art Nouveau scrollwork on the shop front.

The majority of windows are timber sash and case with plate glass. The roof is covered with graded grey slates. Double-corniced stacks (some rebuilt) have circular cans at the wallheads (on the side elevations) and ridges. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes are present, with some decorative hoppers.