Description
John Rhind, 1864; refronted and alterations, William
Mackintosh, 1872-3. Italianate, ashlar, 3 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical but balanced front to Academy Street. 4 bays
with 3rd bay slightly advanced, columned entrance, ground
floor windows chamfered and shouldered arched; at 1st
floor, windows 1 and 2 corniced, window 3 tripartite with
consoled segmental pediment, window 4 bipartite with
consoled cornice; at 2nd floor, windows 1 and 2 architraved,
window 3 round-arched tripartite, window 4 bipartite and
corniced. Advanced bay finished with French pavilion roof
and segmental pedimented wallhead dormer with balustrade and
flanked by chimney-stacks; 2 canted dormers. Canted south
east corner. Union Street front 7 bays, engaged columns with
foliated capitals at ground floor windows; at 1st floor,
windows corniced and north-east window tripartite with
consoled segmental pediment; 2nd floor windows architraved,
north-east window tripartite. 3 dormers; slated roof.
Additions and alterations, Ross and Macbeth, 1903-04.