139-140 Princes Street, Edinburgh

Circa 1790; adapted as shops circa 1840. Surviving 3-storey and attic 5-bay section of former tenement. Droved ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. Slightly set back common stair bay to left with architraved doorpiece with pulvinated frieze and pediment; strip of V-jointed rustication survives to right. At ground, small section of rustication; pair of built out tripartite shops to right with cornice and blocking course; that to right drastically altered; that to left in good order with mutuled cornice and tall, 2-leaf panelled doors. Pair of piend-roofed tripartite dormers. Pair of flagpoles.

3-bay rear elevation to Hope Street Lane of dressed rubble with arched door and stair windows at centre; large tripartite windows flank door at ground, that to No 139 with wrought-iron grilles bearing initials W & S.

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass, 12-pane to stair. Ashlar coped skews, rebuilt stone stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: both shops have virtually identical plaster enrichments and barrel vaulted saloons to rear. Upper floors rebuilt following fire, 1993.