52 And 54 High Street, Edinburgh

52 and 54 High Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey and double attic, three-bay asymmetrical Scots Baronial tenement built between 1871 and 1873 by Robert Morham, adapting a design by David Cousin and John Lessels. This building is part of a unified row on the south side of High Street and features squared and snecked rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings. The window margins are chamfered, with long and short styles.

On the left side, there is a corbelled bay that projects from the first floor, rising two storeys and corbelled again at the third floor, breaking through the eaves with a tall pyramidal roof topped with a finial. The far right has bipartite windows. A deep moulded cill course is present at the first attic level, and there are two wallhead dormers that break the eaves, each adorned with fleur-de-lys finials. Additionally, there are three gabletted upper dormers, with the left one being bipartite and set within the roof pitch.

The ground floor accommodates shops and features a stepped band course between the ground and first floors. The windows are timber sash and case with 8-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with grey Scottish slate. The building has broad end stacks, clay cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.