205 And 207 High Street, Edinburgh

Early 18th century, incorporating earlier fabric. 6-storey and attic 8-bay tenement block (4:4, with chamfered flat-arched pend to Fleshmarket Close to centre); shops to ground floor; 2-window wallhead gable to centre with wide apex stack; 4-bay gable-end with stepped string course to ground floor to Cockburn Street (door to outer right) and wings extending N between Cockburn Street and Fleshmarket Close, and between Fleshmarket and Jackson's Closes (see Notes). Rubble construction, cement rendered to High Street and Cockburn Street. Modern shop fronts to left. 2-storey shop front to right, curved to corner; corniced to ground and 1st floors (that to 1st dentilled); raised margins to ground floor openings; 2-leaf timber panelled door in 2nd bay from right; fluted timber pilasters to outer left and right. Narrow closet windows to 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th floors to outer left. 2 slate-hung dormers to attic. Tall stair projection and lower 3-storey rubble wing to W of Fleshmarket Close.

Predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Scrolled skewputts. Wall- and gable-head stacks with circular cans.