1-5 High Street, Edinburgh

George Beattie and Sons, 1873. Symmetrical 4-storey and attic Scots Baronial corner tenement block with public house at ground; 3 bays to High Street, 3 to Jeffrey Street; canted corner bay with balustraded attic balcony. Painted sandstone at ground, squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone above with polished margins. Shouldered openings to ground floor; moulded cill courses and bracketed cornices to 1st and 2nd floors; machicolated corbel table to attic floor.

MIRRORED S AND E ELEVATIONS: pedimented gablets to outer bays (that to E corbelled out at 2nd floor, fish-scale slated pyramidal roof with weathervane behind). Crowstepped gables with apex stacks to inner 2 bays (carved monogram to E dated 1873).

CORNER BAY: 2-leaf timber panelled door in round-arched surround with key-blocked lugged architrave; 3-storey oriel corbelled out above; finialled, crowstepped gable to attic with glazed doors to balcony and small gabletted opening above.

Predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case glazing; modern plate glass with modern timber architraves to public house. Grey slate roofs. Corniced wallhead stacks; circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: original plain cornicing to public house interior.