Crew Building, University Of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Alexander Crum Brown Road, Edinburgh

Lorimer and Matthew, 1927-29. 2-storey and basement, 7-bay, symmetrical T-plan university laboratory building. The building is harled with channelled quoins and droved ashlar dressings. There is a cill course to the 2nd floor and an eaves course.

The east (entrance) elevation has an advanced central bay with steps and curvilinear walls with cast iron lamp standards at the base. There is a keystoned and architraved segmental arch to the porch. The timber entrance doors are 2-leaf with a 4-pane fanlight. Above the porch is a round-arch single window and a wrought iron balcony incorporating a rosette motif. There is a figurative relief carving to the curvilinear Dutch gable. The north and south elevations are 10-bay with 2-bay returns, forming the T-plan. There are synthetic stone aprons between windows of 1st and 2nd storeys. The 3-bay west (rear) elevation has steps up to single door, a single window to 1st floor with synthetic stone aprons between the storeys, and a door to the centre at basement level.

The entrance elevation has timber sash and case windows in a variety of small-pane glazing patterns, principally 16- and 20-pane. The windows to rear have steel frames. Grey slate to piended roof, swept at eaves with beak skewputts. Corniced belfry with ogival roof in N side of rear roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was seen in 2015. The entrance hall has square-plan supporting columns. The main staircase, off-set to left of entrance hall, has synthetic stone steps, a curved, wrought-iron balustrade and handrail with twisted uprights and scroll motifs at intervals.