1-5 High Street, Edinburgh

1-5 High Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey and attic Scots Baronial corner tenement block designed by George Beattie and Sons in 1873, featuring a public house on the ground floor. The building has three bays facing High Street and three bays on Jeffrey Street, with a canted corner bay that includes a balustraded attic balcony. The ground floor is finished in painted sandstone, while the upper levels are constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with polished margins. The ground floor has shouldered openings, and the first and second floors are adorned with moulded cill courses and bracketed cornices. The attic floor features a machicolated corbel table.

The mirrored south and east elevations showcase pedimented gablets on the outer bays, with the eastern gable corbelled out at the second floor and topped with a fish-scale slated pyramidal roof and a weathervane. The inner two bays have crowstepped gables with apex stacks, and the eastern side displays a carved monogram dated 1873.

The corner bay includes a two-leaf timber panelled door set in a round-arched surround with a key-blocked lugged architrave. Above this door is a three-storey oriel that is corbelled out, and the attic features a finialled, crowstepped gable with glazed doors leading to the balcony and a small gabletted opening above.

The building predominantly features four-pane timber sash and case windows, although the public house has modern plate glass with contemporary timber architraves. The roofs are covered with grey slate, and there are corniced wallhead stacks with circular clay cans, as well as cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the public house retains original plain cornicing.