The Blue Blazer, 2-10 Spittal Street, Edinburgh

The Blue Blazer is a three-storey tenement block located at 2-10 Spittal Street in Edinburgh, built in 1864. This building features a bowed corner design and includes pilastrated shops and a public house on the ground floor. The façade has four bays facing Spittal Street, a slightly recessed three-bay bowed corner, and five bays on Bread Street. It is constructed from droved ashlar with polished dressings.

Architectural details include a dividing band between the ground and first floors, a cill band at the third floor, and a moulded eaves course. The ground floor has stop-chamfered openings, while the first floor windows have panelled aprons and projecting cills at the second floor. The windows on the bowed corner at the first and second floors have depressed-arched surrounds, with the first-floor windows featuring moulded and aproned surrounds and a moulded linking band. The central window has a carved date panel reading "1864" above it, and there are bracketed cills at the first floor. An inscription reading "Clan Alpine Buildings" is located above the fascia of the public house.

On the northwest elevation (Spittal Street), there is a timber panelled door to the flats in the centre, with a shop door to the right flanked by windows that have modern glazing. To the left, there are two small shops with recessed entrances. Above, there are bipartite windows on the outer left.

On the south elevation (Bread Street), there is a timber panelled door to the flats with a small-pane glazed fanlight to the outer right, and the shops feature modern glazing. Bipartite windows are present in the second bay from the left above.

The building retains some four-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, and it has corniced, rendered end stacks with circular cans.