98 Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh

98 Constitution Street in Leith, Edinburgh, is a single-storey row of six shops built in 1887 by James Simpson. The building features a mansard roof, a pend, and a warehouse that runs at a right angle to the rear. It is constructed of brick with a painted stone front. The façade includes a continuous fascia and a dentilled cornice topped with a blocking course that serves as a parapet, along with a scrolled cast-iron balustrade supported by square ashlar dies. The shopfronts to the right of the pend have panelled doors and stallrisers, shouldered-arched openings with slender mullions, and panelled pilasters with foliate capitals. The shopfronts to the left of the pend have plain stop-chamfered reveals.

On the southeast front elevation, the pend is off-centre to the left and features moulded timber beams on stone corbels, along with ornately scrolled wrought-iron gates. To the left of the pend, there is a recessed doorway, a bipartite window, and two doorways. To the right of the pend, there are four shopfronts, three of which have double doors and large four-pane fanlights, while one has a central window flanked by narrow doorways.

The northwest rear elevation is two-storey with a pend that has splayed reveals. The openings on this elevation are either bricked up or in the process of refurbishment. A three-storey warehouse extends northwest at a right angle to the row of shops, built of brick with chamfered dressings of cream sandstone. The northeast elevation of the warehouse is now obscured by a later bonded warehouse.

The southwest elevation features the three-storey side of the warehouse, which is rendered and has a flat roof, with a shaped gable and a pedimented finial facing Constitution Street. The windows on this elevation are timber casement windows. The roofs are slate with lead flashings and cast-iron skylights, and there is a moulded eaves gutter.

Inside, the warehouse range includes cast-iron columns.