17 Argyle Place, Edinburgh

15-16 Argyle Place is a four-storey building with an attic, constructed around 1875. It features a Baronial corner tenement block with an angle turret and a public house on the ground floor. The exterior is made of squared and snecked sandstone, accented with polished ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a broken base course, a cornice above the ground floor, and a corbel table at the third floor that steps down to the second floor on the Argyle Place elevation. The building also has crowstepped gables and chamfered reveals.

On the east elevation facing Argyle Place, there are various stone and cast-iron columns with foliate capitals supporting the public house. The windows have been altered, and there is a central entrance to the tenement featuring a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight. The elevation has three bays above the ground floor, with bipartite windows in the outer right bay and a gabled window on the third floor that includes an inset patera. The remaining bays have single windows, and there is a small window in the attic with corbels supporting the gablehead stack, which forms a segmental-arched frame. A gabled dormer is located to the left of the gable, and there is a square blank tablet at the first floor on the outer left. The rounded angle leads to the recessed 18-21 Argyle Place, which has a separate listing.

The south elevation facing Roseneath Street features two bays and a corner turret. The windows and entrances to the public house on the ground floor have been altered. There are bipartite windows in the outer left bay, and round-arched windows with roll-moulded surrounds in the gablehead at the attic. The inner left bay has single windows, and the third-floor window breaks the eaves in a finialled pedimented dormerhead. The turret has canted windows on the first and second floors, with dividing cornices. Three single windows at the rounded third stage also break the eaves. The eaves course and cornice above lead to a finialled pedimented dormer set into the conical roof, which features a cast-iron weathervane finial. The rounded angle leads to the recessed 1-3 Roseneath Street, which has a separate listing.

The building has four-pane and plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with lead flashing, and rendered gablehead and mutual stacks. Some original rainwater goods, including hoppers and beak skewputts, are still present. The interiors were not seen in 1990.