361-363 High Street, Edinburgh

Circa 1735, incorporating earlier fabric and with later alterations, including McMenan and Brown, 1987 (see Notes). 5-storey and attic 10-bay tenement (bays grouped 4:4:2); 2 2-window wallhead gables with apex stacks; shops to ground floor; short 6-storey rubble-built wing to N, bounded by Advocate's Close to W and Roxburgh's Close to E, and adjoining 4-storey wing (see Notes). Rubble with ashlar dressings; rear elevation and 6-storey wing (above ground floor) harled. Relieving arches to openings. Symmetrical tenement to left: 4 bays to either side of depressed-arched pend to Advocate's Close; modern shop fronts; 4 bays to right at 2nd storey altered, with cornice and tall plate glass windows; steep stairs to outer right with cast-iron hand-rail to round-arched entrance to flats with cast-iron gate and grille and modern 2-leaf timber boarded door; circular window above and small windows to stair at 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors. 2-bay tenement to right: modern doorway to left; depressed-arched entrance to pend to Roxburgh's Close to right.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: single bay above segmental-arched pend to Roxburgh Close, with remains of circular stair tower to left. Canted bay linking rear wing. Drum stair tower with conical roof to right of pend to Advocate's Close.

ADVOCATES CLOSE: roll-moulded surrounds to modern timber boarded doors at Nos 2 and 4, with carved dated lintels above (see Notes); corbels above doors; window (former door reached by forestair) to left; upper storeys harled. Rubble wing to N (No 8 Advocate's Close): modern mullioned and transomed windows; interior altered 1980's with timber stair linking floors; vaulted ground floor; 2 splendid 17th century chimneypieces, flanked by clustered colonnettes. Early panelling to upper floors.

12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Corniced wallhead and ridge stacks with circular cans. Grey slates.