During the university period Teviot hosts a number of regular events catered towards local students.

The building also plays host to EUSA's regular democratic meetings and student society events.

During the Edinburgh Festival, the building is used by the Gilded Balloon and is one of the city's largest Fringe venues.

It was formerly the venue for the Fringe Club, and in modern times is configured to create eight performance spaces, eight bars, and a café.

[2] Teviot was built in Hailes sandstone in a 16th-century Scots palace style with a coped crowstepped and pinnacled gables clasped by drum towers of the Falkland or Holyrood type but with large windows.