135 High Street, Edinburgh

David Cousin, 1864-65 (see Notes), and Peter Lyle Barclay Henderson, 1901, incorporating earlier fabric (originally part of 5-storey 7-bay tenement by Thomas Bonnar, 1813, see Notes). Single tall storey High Street public house with Renaissance detailing (Henderson); pend to right (Bishop's Close) stone-vaulted to rear; pend to left (Carrubber's Close) with long narrow Baronial-detailed tenement block on sloping site to rear; drum staircase; further plain adjoining tenement block to N (Cousin, 1865).

S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: symmetrical 3-bay polished grey ashlar arcaded pub front; grey granite fluted Ionic pilasters flanking bays; scrolled foliate consoles supporting dentilled cornice and panelled entablature; central square-headed doorway with shouldered fanlight; 2-leaf glazed timber inner door; swept pediment above; flanking large key-blocked round-arched windows; moulded ingoes.

ADJOINING BLOCK TO REAR: random rubble; ashlar dressings.

W (CARRUBBER'S CLOSE) ELEVATION: 3-storey and attic 5-bay model tenement; squared and snecked sandstone; dressed margins. Painted roll-moulded stop-chamfered doorway; timber metal-studded door; moulded bishop's mitre device within round-arched shouldered surround; 2 flanking windows with iron grilles (modern) as stylised bishop's mitre devices. 4 gabled dormers breaking eaves; triangular dormerheads. Modern timber single leaf boarded door; open scale and platt stair to left with corbelled openings and plain iron railings. Regular fenestration.

N ELEVATION: 5 storeys; regular single and bipartite fenestration.

E ELEVATION: droved ashlar to Bishop's Close pend; rubble-built with stugged ashlar margins to courtyard at Bishop's Close. Drum stair in re-entrant angle to rear; timber-headed dormer breaking eaves.

Timber-framed glazing to pub front (partly reproduction). Rear ranges timber sash and case, predominantly 12-pane. Modern roof behind continuous timber fascia. Grey slates to rear ranges; coped wallhead stacks; lost cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: part seen 2002. Original ribbed plaster ceiling to pub; moulded cornice. Cellars and basement storage.