The Protestant Institute Of Scotland, 17, 18, 19 George Iv Bridge, Edinburgh

Patrick Wilson, 1860, incorporating earlier fabric. 3-storey and basements (5 storeys to Merchant Street) 5-bay tenement with Jacobean detailing; shops to ground floor to George IV Bridge. Cream ashlar (painted at ground floor to George IV Bridge).

E (GEORGE IV BRIDGE) ELEVATION: base course; modillioned cornice to ground floor; cill course at 2nd floor; modillioned cornice; decorative strapwork stone parapet with urns flanking circular carved panel (see Notes) and at corners. Corniced and consoled windows in moulded surrounds with strapwork pediments and carved inscriptions to lintels (see Notes) to 1st floor; bracketed cills to 2nd floor. 2-leaf timber panelled door to outer right with semicircular fanlight in ornate keyblocked round-arched doorpiece with decorative pilasters and carved spandrels; entablature above cornice with carved open book to centre flanked by urn finials. Modern alterations to shop front.

S (MERCHANT STREET) ELEVATION: 6 bays: dividing bands between ground and 1st, 1st and 2nd and 2nd and 3rd floors, cill course to 4th floor; modillioned eaves cornice and pierced strapwork parapet carried round from E elevation; initials PW Archt. carved on cornice band; later entrance to right with window above; projecting wallhead stack. 3-storeys and basement of regularly fenestrated 5-bay house (Robert Burn, 1810) with cast-iron railings to basement, stone steps and platts over-arching basement area (timber panelled door with fanlight above in Doric-pilastered and corniced doorpiece), round-arched window to outer right at ground (mirroring that to left at No 3 Merchant Street) incorporated to left; additional 2 stories added above; round-arched windows to 3rd floor; cill course to 4th, moulded eaves course and parapet.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Corniced wallhead stacks with circular cans.