7, 9 And 11 High Street, Edinburgh

George Beattie and Sons, 1873. Symmetrical 4-storey 4-bay Scots Baronial tenement with shops at ground floor. Crowstepped gable with wide apex stack to centre 2 bays, corbelled out at 2nd floor; flanking gabled dormerheads to windows breaking eaves at 3rd floor. Single storey and basement piend-roofed narrow block to rear. Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone, polished dressings and long and short quoins; painted ashlar at ground floor. String courses at 2nd and 3rd floors. Single and bipartite fenestration with stop-chamfered openings.

S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: consoled and moulded arcade to ground floor; central panelled timber single leaf door (to flats) with 2-pane glazed fanlight above; flanking 3-bay shops with stop-chamfered shouldered openings, timber panelled doors with glazed fanlights, flanking plate glass windows. Carved plaque to centre at 1st floor (see Notes). 2nd floor windows in segmental-arched recesses; bipartites to outer bays. 2-bay corbel table rising centrally from 2nd to 3rd floor; small central round-arched and canopied attic light.

Timber sash and case 4-pane original glazing. Grey slate roof; shaped skews; corniced stacks; circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: decorative cornice to shop at No 11.