9 Randolph Place, Edinburgh

This is a two-story and attic town house with a shop at ground level, built around 1900 by T Duncan Rhind at 9 Randolph Place, Edinburgh. The building exhibits an Elizabethan half-timbered style, incorporating classical and Art Nouveau details. The exterior is constructed primarily of stugged, squared, and snecked cream sandstone with polished ashlar dressings at ground level, half-timbering on the upper floor, and red sandstone ashlar dressings to the gables. A brick stack is located on the north gable.

The principal south elevation is asymmetrical. It features a shopfront recessed behind a portico-like screen with a wide central opening flanked by paired Tuscan columns supporting a plain frieze. The first floor is half-timbered and projected over the first-floor cornice and includes a tooled and painted square coat of arms to the left return. The left bay is irregularly fenestrated with timber mullioned windows and a piend-roofed, bracketed oriel angled at the outer left corner. Paired half-timbered gables are situated at the eaves. A timber mullioned bow window is offset to the right in the right bay, with an oversailing gable containing a timber mullioned and canted oriel window. The shopfront cornice is slightly advanced in the right bay and wraps around a circular corner tower. This tower corbels out at the first floor and contains a two-light mullioned window, breaking the eaves with a boldly corniced parapet, a substantial decorative finial, and a wrought-iron weathervane.

The east elevation, facing Randolph Lane, has a large round-arched opening containing canted timber glazing at ground level in the left bay. A half-timbered gable is slightly advanced at the first floor, featuring a timber-mullioned oriel supported on decorative brackets, with the gable oversailing and breaking the eaves with a half-timbered gablehead. A slightly bowed elevation at ground level in the right bay contains a mullioned timber window offset to the left. Two two-light mullioned windows are positioned at the first floor, with the half-timbering terminating at the outer right by a red sandstone margin projecting over the ground floor on a stone corbel. A single-story, six-bay building adjoins the right-hand side, featuring a string course and a coped blocking course; later metal doors are in the outer-right bay, with a rectangular fanlight and part-louvred ventilator. Six-pane rectangular fanlights are in the third bay from the right. The remaining bays have windows, with the penultimate bay from the right being barred; the rest are leaded.

The roof is covered in grey slate, with skylights and a rendered stack breaking the pitch, corniced with a circular can. Leaded glazing is present in the casements at the first floor and attic. The principal roof, gables, and dormers have red tiles and bargeboards. The dormers have half-timbered gableheads with timber mullioned and leaded windows. A six-flue brick gablehead stack is located on the north, composed of a cluster of angled square flues with stone copes on a rectangular base. The east elevation features an ashlar skew cope, swept up at the eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods are in place, with an ornate hopper at the corner tower on the south elevation and clasping the southwest corner.

The interior was not inspected in 1998.