152, 154 Rose Street, Edinburgh

152 and 154 Rose Street in Edinburgh is a former tenement building constructed by 1780, featuring a shopfront designed by Thomas Purves Marwick in 1892. The interior was rebuilt and extended by Marwick in 1899, with further renovations carried out by Covell Matthews between 1966 and 1967. The building stands three stories tall with an attic and has a four-bay facade on a corner site, including a double-height public bar on the ground floor. It is made of coursed sandstone rubble and has architraved windows at the front. The ground floor features a six-bay barfront with panelled Corinthian consoles that support a corniced fascia, with doors located in the outer bays and a five-bay return. The first-floor windows are corniced, and there are three elegant piend-roofed bowed dormers. Wrought-iron brackets hold a sign and an armoured helmet.

The first floor of the bar has fixed stained glass windows, while the rest of the building features 12-pane and plate glass timber sash and case windows. The building has ashlar coped skews, a brick stack on the gable that is rendered to the east, and is topped with grey slates.

Inside, there is a fine late Victorian decorative scheme. The lobbies are fitted with two-leaf timber-panelled doors, asymmetrically divided with etched glass on the left-hand doors, and an open finialled balustrade above. The double-height bar features embossed Minton tiling on the walls up to the first floor under the cills, a deep cornice with scrolled brackets, and a Jacobean compartmented ceiling. The roughly square timber-panelled island counter has pilasters and scrolled brackets, with match-strikers at the upper edge and a superstructure at the sides and rear supported by slender columns and glazed timber partitions. The gantry has a corbelled bowed central section with carved strapwork decoration above the cornice, and a large mirror advertising Drybrough's Pale Ale is mounted on the right wall.