1-3 Leven Street, Edinburgh

1-3 Leven Street is a classical corner tenement building from the earlier 19th century, featuring later additions. It stands four storeys high with three bays facing Leven Street and five bays on Gilmore Place, including a three-bay bow. The exterior is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with stugged grey sandstone ashlar dressings on Leven Street and stugged grey sandstone ashlar on Gilmore Place. The ground floor has a painted, advanced single-storey section on both streets. Architectural details include a base course, a cornice on the ground floor (except for the outer left bay on Leven Street), cills on the first and second floor windows, a cornice above the second floor on the Gilmore Place side, and a cill course on the third floor of the Leven Street elevation. The ground floor windows have architraves, while the upper floor windows on Leven Street feature long and short surrounds.

On the Leven Street elevation, there are three bays with single windows on the right at ground level and a recessed door on the outer left. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with blind windows on the outer right of the first and second floors.

The Gilmore Place elevation includes a flat-roofed single-storey addition at ground level, with a three-bay canted section at the corner on the left. It features a panelled two-leaf timber entrance door with a round-arched fanlight, pilasters supporting a moulded keystoned arch, fluted pilasters, and a recessed panel above. There are narrow single windows flanking the entrance, single windows with projecting cills in the three bays to the right, and a plain single window in the return to the right. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with a blind window in the centre of the third floor of the bow and a block pediment above.

The building predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with some replacements of two and three panes. The roof is covered with grey slate, piended, and conical over the bowed section, featuring coped rendered stacks with corniced cans and cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1997.