Palace Cinema, 9-13 Duke Street, Edinburgh

The Palace Cinema, located at 9-13 Duke Street in Edinburgh, is a former cinema built in 1912. This two-storey building occupies a corner site and features a chamfered corner block with shops on either side. The corner block is constructed of red brick with red sandstone ashlar dressings, topped by a tall harled parapet screen and flanked by rubble gable walls. The shops are separated by shallow ashlar pilasters and have a continuous frieze and cornice above. The original shopfronts include recessed doorways and glazed displays, while the first-floor parapet screens are divided by pedimented brick pilasters with harled panels that break the eaves. The corner block is finished with a cornice and blocking course.

On the west elevation, the chamfered corner bay is flanked by additional bays. The entrance features a broad moulded and keystoned segmental arch, with a domed and curved recess behind that includes an altered doorway and a floral plasterwork frieze. Above this, there is a square window in a recessed panel with a shouldered architrave, along with three smaller windows above that break the eaves in an open pediment. Two windows flank the entrance. The outer flanking bays to the northwest and southwest have shopfronts at the ground floor and single or paired windows on the first floor.

The northwest elevation, facing Constitution Street, has four shopfronts with two plain doorways. A secondary doorway is flanked by two windows on the outer left, and the doorways feature elaborate panelling. Above, the screen parapet is divided into four sections by brick pilasters.

The southwest elevation, facing Duke Street, includes two shops and a public house that frame a deep-set entrance doorway. The fishmongers at No. 11 retains its original interior, including shelving and a marble-topped counter, along with a tiled doorway and stained glass inset in the shop window. The parapet screen above is divided into three sections by brick pilasters.

The corner block features 10-pane timber sash and case windows, with four-pane upper sashes and six-pane lower sashes. The building has a slate roof with two gablehead stacks to the southeast and northeast, as well as mutual stacks at the corner block.

The interior has been converted into a pub in 2008, which occupies the ground floor. The upper area is disused but still contains cinema seats, and the rear of the balcony features original brown and gold panelling.