168, 170, 172 Canongate, Edinburgh

1. 3-storey and attic, 5-bay, symmetrical commercial and residential Scots Baronial tenement with central crowstepped gable flanked by pedimented, rose-finialled dormers. Squared and snecked rubble with roll-moulded ashlar dressings. Corbelled out at attic level with moulded eaves course above, dropping below dormers. Shops to ground with distinctive shouldered architrave mouldings to doors and windows; 2-leaf timber panelled doors. Blind windows to central bay.

12-pane timber sash and case windows at upper floors; plate glass fixed windows to shops. Scottish slate. End stacks (rebuilt in ashlar, circa 1965). Cast-iron rainwater goods.