2 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh

2 Jeffrey Street in Edinburgh is a five-storey end tenement block designed by George Beattie and Sons in 1873, showcasing an asymmetrical Scots Baronial style. The building features two bays facing Canongate, three bays on Jeffrey Street, and four bays on Cranston Street. A canted bay is located at the corner of Jeffrey Street and Canongate, while a circular tower is positioned at the corner of Cranston Street.

The ground floor includes shops on both Jeffrey Street and Canongate, with the shopfronts at 297 Canongate and 2 Jeffrey Street being original and well-preserved. These shopfronts have stop-chamfered, shoulder-arched openings and timber panelled vestibules. The building is constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced yellow sandstone, with polished dressings on the painted shops. Moulded cill courses are present on the first and fourth floors, and the first floor features segmental-arched windows. Bracketed cornices adorn the first and second floors, while bracketed cills are found on the third floor along Canongate and Jeffrey Street.

On the south elevation facing Canongate, there is a star-finialled, crowstep-gabled canted bay to the left with bipartite windows and a balustered balcony on the second floor. The two-bay section on Canongate has a crowstepped gable and an apex stack. The corner to Cranston Street is bowed, and the circular tower rises from the third floor, topped with a triangular-pedimented dormer and a finialled, conical roof.

The west elevation on Jeffrey Street features a corbel table rising from the third floor to the attic, with a triangular-pedimented wallhead dormer on the left. There is also a two-bay crowstepped gable with an apex stack.

The east elevation facing Cranston Street has a crowstepped gable with an apex stack and a crowstepped wallhead dormer to the right, which is corbelled out at attic level. The building has timber sash and case windows with four-pane glazing. The roofs are pitched with grey slate, fish-scaled on the tower, and feature corniced apex and ridge stacks with circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

Inside, the shop at No 297 has a decorative cornice.