11-19 Barclay Place, Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh

Thomas Purves Marwick, dated 1885. 4-storey 8-bay bold Free Renaissance/Queen Anne tenement block, with shops at ground floor; bays grouped in gabled pairs, stepping up from N to S. Grey sandstone ashlar. Decorative mouldings to windows at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors (progressively less ornate).

W (BARCLAY PLACE) ELEVATION: full run of substantially intact shop fronts, separated by slender decoratively panelled pilasters; timber panelled doors with border-glazed fanlights to stairs. Mutuled cornice above shops; deep cornice between 2nd and 3rd floors. Gabled pairs of bays fenestrated as mirrored pairs, with bipartite windows in outer bays. Giant Corinthian pilasters with decorative shafts framing outer bays and at centre, with ball-finials and roundels at skew ends above. Inner 2 bays flanked by tall corniced, scalloped chimney shafts rising from 3rd floor level; carved panels beneath with date (1885) to right and initials (AC - Alexander Calder, the builder/developer) to left. Key-blocked oeil-de-boeuf windows in pedimented gables with decoratively treated apexes.

Timber sash and case windows to flats, 2-pane glazing to upper sashes, plate glass below. Grey slates; stone skews. Tall corniced ashlar stacks with circular cans to roof ridge at centre, at gable ends, and on front elevation.