205 And 207 High Street, Edinburgh

205 and 207 High Street is an early 18th-century tenement block that incorporates earlier elements. It is a six-storey building with an attic and features eight bays, arranged in a 4:4 configuration. The central section has a chamfered flat-arched pend leading to Fleshmarket Close. The ground floor contains shops, while the centre has a two-window wallhead gable with a wide apex stack. The gable end facing Cockburn Street has four bays and a stepped string course at the ground floor, with a door located to the outer right. The building extends north between Cockburn Street and Fleshmarket Close, and also between Fleshmarket and Jackson's Closes.

The construction is of rubble, with cement rendering on the façades facing High Street and Cockburn Street. The left side features modern shop fronts, while the right side has a two-storey shop front that curves around the corner. This shop front has cornices at the ground and first floors, with the first floor cornice being dentilled. The ground floor openings have raised margins, and there is a two-leaf timber panelled door in the second bay from the right, flanked by fluted timber pilasters on the outer left and right. Narrow closet windows are present on the second, third, fourth, and fifth floors on the outer left side. The attic includes two slate-hung dormers.

The building has a tall stair projection and a lower three-storey rubble wing to the west of Fleshmarket Close. It predominantly features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with grey slates on the roof. Scrolled skewputts and wall- and gable-head stacks with circular cans are also present.