156-158 High Street, Edinburgh

156-158 High Street in Edinburgh is a five-storey, seven-bay tenement building dating from 1825, which incorporates earlier materials. The building features a distinctive round-arched window treatment on the right side of the first floor. The ground floor has pilastered timber shop fronts, while the first floor is finished in painted ashlar with raised cills. At No 156, there is a Langley-Gothick doorway inscribed 'Mary's Chapel'. A narrow round-arched pend opening in the center leads to Covenant Close. The first floor has five round-arched openings with Y-tracery glazing that alternate in size, framed by balustraded, pilastered, and corniced moulding in the center three bays. To the left, there are a pair of bi-partite piended dormers, and to the right, there are two single dormers.

The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a Scottish slate roof, and particularly broad brick and ashlar stacks. It also includes clay cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.