109-115 High Street, Edinburgh

Alexander W Macnaughtan, 1902. Asymmetrical 5-storey 8-bay Scots vernacular/Arts and Crafts tenement block, stepped to slope. Original corniced, pilastraded timber shopfronts; 2-storey at outer left and left/centre. Wide wallhead gables, jerkin-headed to left with hooded oculus, crowstepped with gable apex stack to right. Keyblocked round-arched pend (gated) to Morrison's Close with broken pediment and carved thistle over (see Notes); roll-moulded segmental-arched pend (gated) to Bailie Fyfe's Close at outer right with heraldic panel in decorative surround and oculus over (see Notes). Squared and snecked stugged sandstone; polished dressings; irregular corbel course at 2nd floor. Yellow brick with red ashlar cills and lintels to rear. Predominantly single and bipartite irregular fenestration.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: wide segmental pediment to shop at right (modern glazing); quadripartite window above with canted recessed outer bays, fluted pilasters and triangular pediment; that to left with altered public house front at ground; tripartite window above with fluted timber pilasters and canted recessed outer bays (mark of missing segmental pediment still evident). Stone-mullioned 5-light 4th floor window to left gable; triangular and segmental-headed dormers breaking eaves to attic, that to left with timber dormerhead.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: forestair incorporating lintel dated 1572 (see Notes); deck with plain iron railings; second forestair to upper levels at right.

E ELEVATION: stugged sandstone; adjoins 95-105 High Street at ground to 3rd floor.

W ELEVATION: plain rendered; to aerial gap site above 1st and 2nd floors.

Much remaining original sash and case glazing, with 6-pane upper sashes, plate glass lower. Modern plate glass shopfronts at ground. Pitched grey slate roof; crowstepped skews; coped end, apex and ridge stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: part seen 2002. Egg and dart moulded cornice in shops at 109 and 119; original plain chimneypiece and cast-iron range at 1st floor rear E room.