St Patrick's Roman Catholic School, Drummond Street, Edinburgh

John Alexander Carfrae, dated 1905. Symmetrical, 2-storey and basement to street with attic and garret, 10-bay, Scots-Renaissance former Roman Catholic school with Scandinavian-Jacobean influences. Polychromatic stonework and coped-crowstep gables. Red sandstone ashlar with intermittent use of pale dressings. Central gable with key-stoned roundel; stack at apex. Segmental-arched windows at 2nd floor. Slightly lower wings to E and W elevations with pilastered 'Boys' and 'Girls' entrance porches with concave leaded roofs. Steeply-pitched roof with small piended dormers to attic and garret levels; ornamental octagonal ventilator spirelet to centre of ridge. 4-storey to lower ground to rear. Balustraded parapet with pyramidal-cap finials to E and W corner angles. Low, chamfered boundary walls with cast-iron railings.

Variety of single and bipartite, small-paned timber sash and case windows. Later fixed-pane replacements to basement level. Slate roof. Banded end stacks with vertical ribbing. Clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Believed to be comprehensively refurbished for residential use. Stairs to E and W wings retained.