361-363 High Street, Edinburgh

361-363 High Street in Edinburgh is a tenement building dating from around 1735, with elements from earlier periods and later alterations, including work by McMenan and Brown in 1987. The structure is five stories tall with an attic and features ten bays arranged in groups of four, four, and two. It has two wallhead gables with apex stacks and shops on the ground floor. To the north, there is a short six-storey wing built of rubble, bordered by Advocate's Close to the west and Roxburgh's Close to the east, which connects to a four-storey wing.

The building is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings, while the rear elevation and the six-storey wing above the ground floor are harled. There are relieving arches over the openings. The symmetrical tenement on the left has four bays on either side of a depressed-arched pend leading to Advocate's Close, with modern shop fronts. The four bays on the right at the second storey have been altered, featuring a cornice and tall plate glass windows. A steep staircase on the outer right leads to a round-arched entrance for the flats, which has a cast-iron handrail, a cast-iron gate and grille, and a modern two-leaf timber boarded door. Above this entrance is a circular window, with small windows in the stairwell on the second, third, and fourth floors. The two-bay tenement on the right has a modern doorway to the left and a depressed-arched entrance to the pend leading to Roxburgh's Close on the right.

The north (rear) elevation includes a single bay above a segmental-arched pend to Roxburgh Close, with the remains of a circular stair tower to the left. There is a canted bay connecting the rear wing and a drum stair tower with a conical roof to the right of the pend leading to Advocate's Close.

In Advocate's Close, there are roll-moulded surrounds to modern timber boarded doors at Nos 2 and 4, with carved dated lintels above. Corbels are positioned above the doors, and there is a window (originally a door accessed by a forestair) to the left, with the upper storeys harled. The rubble wing to the north (No 8 Advocate's Close) features modern mullioned and transomed windows, and the interior was altered in the 1980s to include a timber stair linking the floors, a vaulted ground floor, and two impressive 17th-century chimneypieces flanked by clustered colonnettes. Early panelling is found on the upper floors.

The building has 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, corniced wallhead and ridge stacks with circular cans, and is topped with grey slates.