21 Mosley Street

Offices, now restaurant. 1906-08 by Fred T. Walker for The Edinburgh Life Assurance Co. The 1908 building was constructed on the footprint of what was 19 and 21 Mosley Street which housed a shop, café and tea room. 1908 building: Red granite ground floor; ashlar above; roof not visible. Classical framework with diverse details. 5 storeys and attic; 3 bays, the central wider and with tripartite windows. Banded ground and first floors, the former having 2 large openings, segmental and round-arched, and a round-headed doorway with weighty bracketed hood. Coved ground-floor cornice. Wide band above first floor serves as base for Corinthian Order through second and third floors, with 4 engaged columns. Quasi-classical window treatment with pediments on second floor. Deep modillioned cornice. Top storey has deeply-recessed windows and is surmounted by a central attic in the form of an Egyptian temple with flanking balustrades. LISTED GRADE 2