213 Causewayside, Edinburgh

213 and 215 Causewayside in Edinburgh is a former printing and publishing works built in 1880 by surveyors Cousin and Ormiston, with a later addition by John Alexander Carfrae in 1905. The building is four stories high and has twelve bays, constructed from red brick with yellow brick and sandstone dressings. It features cill courses for the windows on the first, second, and third floors, as well as a dentilled eaves cornice.

The entrance elevation of the original block from 1880 is near symmetrical and consists of eight bays. The ground floor windows have bracketed cills and stone architraves with keystones. The central four bays are flanked by giant order, yellow brick strip pilasters, and topped with a central pediment. There is a segmental-arched pend on the outer left with a stone architrave and keystone. The floors above have paired, segmental-arched windows, with windows grouped two-by-two in the central four bays. The two southern bays have paired windows on all floors, with a smaller window on the ground floor of the penultimate bay to the right.

The additional block from 1905 to the south has four bays, arranged in a grouped three-one pattern, with three bays advanced and a broken pediment above. The advanced bays feature a base course, stone architraves, and decorative keystones for the ground floor windows, along with flanking strip pilasters on the floors above. There is a central doorway with a modern door, a stone doorpiece with a keystone, a cornice, and a segmental-arched window above with a hoodmould. Round-arched windows flank the ground floor, while single segmental-arched windows are present on the first and second floors above, with single windows on the third floor. The central window has a yellow brick motif above and a round-arched, advanced surround breaking the pediment, with decorative yellow brick banding on the third floor. The additional bay features a segmental-arched window with a stone architrave and keystone on the ground floor, along with segmental-arched windows on all floors above.

Original window openings have been partially blocked to fit modern twelve-pane timber sash and case windows. The building has grey slate pitched roofs behind the pediments, with coped wallhead stacks and two full-height stacks on the south elevation featuring external chimney-breasts.