142 Commercial Street, Edinburgh

This mid-19th century warehouse at 148 Commercial Street in Edinburgh has undergone later alterations and additions. It features an extended range of 2-, 3-, and 4-storey warehouses and offices, constructed from cream rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings.

From the east, there is a piend-roofed 2-storey, 5-bay cooperage with a yard beyond, which includes a 2-storey loading bay featuring a massive dormer door at the rear. The yard also contains a 20th-century, 2-storey roughcast addition.

The building has an 8-bay single storey and attic office range, which includes a continuous glazed box-dormer added in 1937. There is a 3-bay office to the west known as Quality House, which has a central 2-leaf panelled door and a large ashlar depressed archway at the rear. To the west is Bond 13, a 2-storey structure with 12 bays at the rear, featuring 8 grouped windows on the left side and assorted openings on the right. The upper storey is a later addition, and there are applied iron letters on the front reading "COMMERCIAL STREET BONDED STORES 'HIGHLAND QUEEN'." A 2-storey single bay link connects to a door at ground level and a window above. The former Roses's Lime Juice stores terminate the range, showcasing a 3- and 4-storey, 7-bay structure with regular fenestration, gableheads, and pitch and platform roofs, along with an elevator installed through the centre. A covered loading area is located to the north, and there is a single storey piend-roofed shed to the west.

The property is enclosed by a rubble wall with semi-circular coping, which surrounds the west shed and features square pyramidal coped ashlar gatepiers that are blocked. There are also four similar gatepiers set back from Commercial Street, forming the western entrance to the docks. The windows are barred, and the building has ashlar coped skews and grey slate roofing.

Inside, the warehouses feature timber post-and-beam construction and cast-iron columns in Doric and finned styles. Bond 13 includes a single spliced timber beam, possibly a former mast, supported by dressed tree trunks. The office area is finished with timber panelling.