266, 268, 270 Morrison Street, Edinburgh

266, 268, 270 Morrison Street is a mid to later 19th century tenement block that has undergone some alterations and additions, including a shopfront designed by Peter Henderson. This four-storey, five-bay building features a plain classical and symmetrical design, with shops extending at the ground floor. The upper floors are finished in polished sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, and there is a cill course at each floor, along with an eaves cornice and a blocking course above.

On the south elevation, the ground floor has shop fronts, with a tenement doorway located slightly to the left of the centre. The doorpiece includes panelled Corinthian pilasters with scroll and acanthus consoles flanking plain pilasters that have decorative capitals, along with a frieze featuring a dentil cornice. The shop front on the outer left and right is terminated by identical panelled pilasters and consoles, with a plain pilaster and decorative capital at the outer right beneath the cornice. A replacement timber door with a two-pane rectangular fanlight is present, and there are non-aligned windows (blocked) at each floor above. A recessed shop doorway is centered to the left at the ground floor, with windows at each floor in both bays to the left above, and an identical arrangement on the right.

The east and west elevations adjoin Nos 264-252 (even numbers) to the right and Nos 272-278 (even numbers) to the left, which are listed separately. The north elevation was not visible in 2000.

The building predominantly features four-pane timber sash and case windows, with plate glass shop windows at the ground floor. The roof material is not visible. There is a coped ashlar multi-flue stack to the west and a coped cement rendered and lined multi-flue stack to the east, with cylindrical cans. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

The interior was not seen in 2000.