3, 5 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1987. Tenement.

3, 5 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
hallowed-sandstone-martin
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 August 1987
Type
Tenement
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Late 18th century. Symmetrical, 5-storey 7-bay tenement with commercial premises and public house to ground. Situated on sloping site with wide central stairwell bay with rebuilt wallhead chimney. Coursed, squared rubble with ashlar margins, raised quoins and cills. Partial base course. Central 6-panel timber entrance door to close. Pair of shops to left with timber and glass entrance doors with rectangular fanlights above.

To right, 1891 public house frontage by R Thornton-Sheills & Thomson, with segmental-arched openings. Windows with panelled stallrisers and slender barley-sugar twist mullions. Decorative carved panels. Timber fascia. Dentilled cornice, Decorative carving to spandrels. 8-panel timber entrance doors. Carved Bacchus head consoles.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows to upper floors, plate glass to ground. Gable stacks. Slate roof.

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