47 High Street

47 High Street is a late 19th-century, three-storey and attic tenement that features two shops on the ground floor. The building has four bays on both the first and second floors, with canted corner windows that are corbelled out above the first floor. It has an elaborately scrolled nepus gable, making it a prominent terminal block of the terrace. The front is constructed of yellow sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, while the rear is made of squared, coursed whinstone with yellow sandstone ashlar dressings, along with some brick and timber.

The building showcases a deep fascia cornice, a cill course at the first floor, a band course at the second floor, and a moulded string course. The second floor features moulded, projecting cills. The central entrance consists of an eight-panel timber door with a fanlight and a projecting, corniced stone canopy that is heavily supported by consoles. This entrance is flanked by two shopfronts that have a continuous cornice and outer consoles.

The first and second floors have recessed, canted windows on the left and slightly advanced bays in the center, while the right side features an angled corner window at the first floor, which is corbelled out to form a semi-octagonal canted corner turret at the second floor and attic. The attic is adorned with an exuberant scrolled central nepus gable, which includes a stone-mullioned, pedimented bipartite window and an hourglass-shaped gablehead stack, along with a pedimented dormer to the left. The side elevation facing Walter's Wynd is simpler, with roughly two bays.

At the rear, there are tall stair windows and a deep, cantilevered gabled addition above, along with a canted bay on the left at the ground and first floors, and a canted dormer on the left. The shopfronts feature plate glass, while the other windows predominantly have three-pane glazing in timber sash and case style, with multi-pane fixed glazing in the stair windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and the building has ashlar-coped skews with scrolled detailing. The corniced ashlar stacks are topped with octagonal buff clay cans, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the building features a stone, scale-and-platt tenement stair with a decorative cast-iron balustrade and a polished timber handrail. The interior doors are timber-panelled, with some being half-glazed, and they include fanlights and reeded doorframes.