7, 9 And 11 High Street, Edinburgh

7, 9, and 11 High Street in Edinburgh is a symmetrical four-storey, four-bay Scots Baronial tenement designed by George Beattie and Sons in 1873, featuring shops on the ground floor. The building has a crow-stepped gable with a wide apex stack centered over the two middle bays, and flanking gabled dormerheads that break the eaves at the third floor. At the rear, there is a single-storey and basement narrow block with a piend roof. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with polished dressings and long and short quoins, while the ground floor is finished in painted ashlar. There are string courses at the second and third floors, and the fenestration includes single and bipartite windows with stop-chamfered openings.

On the south elevation facing High Street, the ground floor features a consoled and moulded arcade. The central panelled timber single leaf door, which leads to the flats, is topped with a two-pane glazed fanlight. Flanking this door are three-bay shops with stop-chamfered shouldered openings, timber panelled doors with glazed fanlights, and plate glass windows. A carved plaque is located at the center of the first floor. The second-floor windows are set in segmental-arched recesses, with bipartite windows in the outer bays. A two-bay corbel table rises from the second to the third floor, and there is a small central round-arched and canopied attic light.

The building retains its original timber sash and case four-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring shaped skews, corniced stacks, and circular clay cans, along with cast-iron rainwater goods. Inside, the shop at No 11 has a decorative cornice.