44 Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh

This is an early 19th century, three-storey and six-bay tenement located on Constitution Street in Leith, Edinburgh. The building has undergone later alterations, including a shopfront at No. 46 in 1894, and a public house front at No. 44 designed by W.N. Thomson in 1897-8. The front of the building is constructed from grey sandstone, with stugged ashlar facing the street and coursed rubble to the rear and sides. The first-floor windows are architraved and corniced, originally with panelled aprons, though these are now obscured by the shopfronts; a band cill course runs along the first and second floors, and a dentilled eaves cornice with a blocking course tops the facade.

The front elevation features projecting, single-storey, flat-roofed shopfronts at ground floor. An entrance doorway to the tenement is located to the outer right. The fenestration above the shopfronts is regular, with two canted tripartite dormers to the left.

No. 44, now Noble's Bar, has a three-bay public house front with a tripartite window in a depressed-arched opening at the centre. This window features carved timber mullions and transoms, flanked by doorways with oval-shaped panelling to the doors and large rectangular fanlights. Decorative pilasters with festoon carving and free Ionic capitals support the facade. Ornate, mottled stained glass depicting ships and fish is set within the window and fanlights, though this is now decaying. A cellar opening is also present. An ornate bracket supports a trade sign.

No. 46 has a four-bay shopfront constructed from red sandstone, with a polished black granite base. Shallow granite pilasters flank the front, with a laurel wreath to the frieze, and a balustraded parapet above. The bay to the outer left contains a doorway and an oval bull's-eye window above. The three bays to the right feature arcaded, moulded, and keystoned depressed-arched windows with elaborate bulbous and fluted Corinthian columns, with a recessed doorway at the centre.

The rear elevation is irregular, featuring single windows and a small, flat-roofed projection with a tall tripartite window.

The building has plate glass timber sash and case windows, with some 12-pane windows to the rear. The roof is black slate, with polygonal cupolas and coped mutual and apex stacks to the end gables.

The interior of No. 46 features ornate cornices and octagonal Corinthian columns. No. 44 (Noble's Bar) has a plaster ceiling, ornate cornices, a shallow frieze with ship motifs, diamond-panelled woodwork throughout, and a carved timber gantry behind the bar, which has been moved from its original location and features a dentilled cornice.