Offices Of R. And R. Clark's Printworks, Dundas House, 20 Brandon Street, Edinburgh

Dundas House, located at 20 Brandon Street in Edinburgh, was built in 1883 by John Chesser as the offices for R. and R. Clark's printing works. This two-storey building features a symmetrical neo-Jacobean design and is set back from the street on an elevated front garden area. The central block is five bays wide and has a gabled roof with an arcaded parapet and paired octagonal chimney stacks. The centre bay is slightly advanced and ashlar-faced, topped with a curvilinear strapwork gable. It includes a richly detailed round-arched entrance flanked by three-tier fluted and filleted pilasters, with a balcony above that features a scroll-pedimented bipartite window on the first floor.

The outer bays have crenellated three-light bow windows on the ground floor and bipartite windows on the first floor, while the intermediate bays contain single-light windows with architraves and cornices at the ground level. The wings of the building are lower and slightly recessed, connecting to gabled ends with three-window links, featuring bipartite windows on the ground floor and single lights with alternating curvilinear and triangular dormer heads on the first floor. The gabled ends also have shallow crenellated tripartite windows on the ground floor and bipartites on the first floor, with elaborately finialled skews. The building is topped with slated roofs. The front steps are flanked by elaborate dies with cast iron lamp standards that support octagonal engraved glass lanterns. The interior was reconstructed in 1977 and 1978.