Examination Block, George Heriot's School, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

Donald A Gow, 1894. Double-height T-plan Scots Renaissance and Jacobean hall building. Coursed yellow sandstone ashlar. Single bay square central entrance/stair tower with octagonal ogee-roofed belfry. Pitched roofed glazed metal structure to roof of hall. Battlemented parapet with loopholes and bartizans. Base course; dividing band between ground and 1st floors of entrance block; cill band at 1st; buckle quoins. Aedicular windows with strapwork pediments.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: entrance in slightly advanced central tower, flanked by Doric columns on high pedestals; broken pediment containing crest; 2-leaf timber panelled storm door (glazed inner doors) with plate glass fanlight in round-arched opening with enriched key console. Single window at 1st floor, monogram and date (1894) in panel above. Arcaded, louvred openings with enriched key consoles to belfry. Regularly fenestrated 2-bay flanking sections; recessed outer bays with double-height windows.

N ELEVATION: slightly advanced centre bay with double-height tripartite window. Double-height bipartite windows in flanking bays. Single windows to ground and 1st floors, and aediculed door to right of N return to entrance block to outer left. Recessed outer right bay: door with pilaster strips and segmental pediment to ground, single window above.

S ELEVATION: double-height tripartite window in slightly advanced centre bay. Double-height bipartite windows in flanking bays. S return to entrance block to outer right: single windows to ground and 1st floors, aediculed door to left.

INTERIOR: hammer-beamed roof to double-height hall (now horizontally divided). Central gallery at W end, platform opposite.

Small-pane glazing in sash and case windows to projecting entrance block; border glazing in stone-mullioned and -transomed windows to hall. Grey slates; lead roofs to bartizans and belfry. Cast-iron down pipes with decorative hoppers.