22 Queen Street, Edinburgh

22 Queen Street in Edinburgh is a former classical house built around 1785, with alterations made by George Smith in 1852 and further modifications by Kinnear & Peddie in 1892. The building is three stories high, with a basement and attic, and features a three-bay terraced design. It is constructed from cleaned Craigleith sandstone droved ashlar.

The ground floor has polished ashlar pilaster architraves with consoles as capitals that support a balcony. There is a broad doorway to the right leading to a terrazzo-tiled lobby, and the windows have polished aprons. On the first floor, the balcony is supported by panelled piers and features a pierced strapwork balustrade, with windows that have lugged, tabbed, and keystoned architraves. The second-floor windows have lugged architraves. There are two dormers: one is piend-roofed and slightly bowed to the right, while the other is flat-roofed and set into the roof on the left.

The rear elevation extends into the lane, featuring a two-bay stugged ashlar hall with flanking garaging. The windows throughout are timber sash and case, with four panes on the ground floor, six panes on the first floor, and twelve panes on the second floor. The roof is covered with grey slates and has ashlar coped mutual skews that are lead-covered, along with dressed stone stacks that have been reduced.

Inside, the building has been largely rebuilt in a plain 19th-century style. There is a glazed screen leading to the hall, which features a panelled dado and a massive return stair aligned on the axis. An archway at the first landing leads to a rear addition that contains a large trabeated room on the ground floor, with a partly top-lit room above that incorporates the roof space. The building is joined at every level with No 21.

The property also includes late 19th-century cast-iron railings that match those of No 21. Additionally, there are original two-storey mews buildings that have been rendered and converted to open garaging at the ground level, flanking the 19th-century hall.