152, 154 Rose Street, Edinburgh

Built by 1780; shopfront by Thomas Purves Marwick 1892, interior rebuilt and extended by Thomas Purves Marwick, 1899; renovation Covell Matthews 1966-67. 3-storey and attic, 4-bay former tenement on corner site with double height public bar at ground. Coursed sandstone rubble. Architraved windows to front. 6-bay barfront at ground with panelled Corinthian consoles supporting corniced fascia; doors to outer bays; 5-bay return; 1st floor windows corniced. 3 fine piend-roofed bowed dormers. Wrought-iron brackets support sign and armoured helmet.

Fixed stained glass windows to 1st floor (bar); otherwise 12-pane and plate glass timber sash and case. Ashlar coped skews; brick stack to gable, rendered to E; grey slates.

INTERIOR: fine late Victorian interior decorative scheme. Lobbies with two-leaf timber-panelled doors (asymmetrically divided with etched glass to left-hand doors) and open finialled balustrade above in interior. Double height bar with embossed Minton tiling to walls to first floor under cills; deep cornice with scrolled brackets and Jacobean compartmented ceiling. Roughly square timber-panelled island counter with pilasters and scrolled brackets; match-strikers at upper edge; superstructure at sides and rear on slender columns; glazed timber partitions. Gantry with corbelled bowed central section and carved strapwork decoration above cornice. Large mirror advertising Drybrough's Pale Ale to right wall.