Skinner's Close, 44-46 High Street, Edinburgh

Skinner's Close, located at 44-46 High Street in Edinburgh, is a four-storey and attic tenement built in 1887, designed by T P Marwick based on a design by David Cousin and John Lessels. This three-bay building features a Scots Baronial style, with shops on the ground floor. The first floor is finished in polished ashlar, while the upper levels are constructed from squared and snecked, stugged sandstone with polished dressings.

Notable architectural features include a pair of shouldered tripartite windows on the first floor, which have a rope-moulded crest at the center. There is a deep moulded string course between the first and second floors, and the attic has a corbel table with a central crow-stepped wallhead gable that includes an apex stack, flanked by crow-stepped dormer heads. The shop fronts are painted, and the building has timber sash and case windows with four-pane glazing. The roof is covered with Scottish slate, and there are broad harled axial stacks, clay cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.