3, 5, 7 And 9 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh

James Lessels and Harry Ramsay Taylor, 1888-92. Long 4-storey and attic tenement along curving line of Jeffrey Street with Scots Baronial detailing; stepped to slope, basement level to rear; treated as 5 individual 4 and 5-bay blocks with 2 and 3-bay shopfronts (some altered); stop-chamfered and roll-moulded, shoulder-arched openings at ground floor. Squared and snecked bull-faced yellow sandstone with polished margins; painted ashlar to ground floor. Broad band course between ground and 1st floors; moulded cill courses to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. Windows in tabbed surrounds; corniced at 1st floor.

N/NE (JEFFREY STREET) ELEVATION: Nos 3-9 and 11-15: 4-bay symmetrical blocks with central wallhead gables, corbelled out at Nos 11-15; dummy machicolated corbel table rising from 3rd floor with tourelled wallhead stack at outer right. Nos 17-23 and 25-31: 5-bay asymmetrical block with centre/left wallhead stack rising from 3rd floor (stack treated as before). Nos 33-37: 4-bay; central wallhead stack (as before); small 4th floor corbelled corner turret at outer right with arrow slit; conical roof with finial; dummy machicolations at 3rd floor right cill.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows; plate glass shopfronts. Some original panelled timber single 2-leaf doors; shouldered 2 and 4-pane fanlights above; timber panelling in entrance vestibules. Grey slate pitched roofs; large flat sections, leaded and felted. Coped apex stacks (some replaced); circular clay cans. Rectangular cupolas. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: 3rd floor flat at No 13/6 viewed 2002. Living room: decorative ceiling rose; plain cornice; cast-iron firegrate with tiled insert and black and green marble surround. Bedroom: decorative (painted) cast-iron corner chimneypiece; plain cornice.

BOUNDARY WALL: coped random rubble wall to rear enclosing drying greens; boundary to Hope's Court.