1, 3, 5 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh

This building, located at 1, 3, and 5 Marchmont Road in Edinburgh, is a four-storey corner tenement possibly designed by Thomas P. Marwick and dated 1878. It features Scots Baronial architectural details and includes shops on the ground floor. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings. Notable features include a cornice above the shops, a corbel table at the third floor, and stepped panels framing the windows on the second, third, fifth, and sixth bays on the north side, as well as the second and third bays on the west side. There is a string course at the third floor, crowstepped gables, and chamfered reveals.

On the west elevation facing Marchmont Road, the building has seven bays, including an angle bay and two recessed bays on the outer right. The ground floor has shopfronts, with the stall riser removed and replaced with small-pane glazing on the outer left shop. There is a panelled main door in the third bay from the left, featuring a four-pane fanlight above. A pierced balustrade sits above the two shops on the outer right. The angle bay on the outer left has an advanced doorway with corbels supporting a pierced balustrade, flanked by ball-finialled dies. The entrance has two-leaf panelled doors. The first and second floors have advanced tripartite windows, while the third floor features an advanced bipartite window and a single window in the stone-finialled gablehead. Two-stage bartizans flank the advanced windows on the second and third floors, topped with fishscale conical roofs. The fifth and seventh bays contain bipartite windows, and there are pedimented dormerheads. The remaining bays have single windows, with semi-circular windows in the fourth and sixth bays. The second and third bays are linked above the eaves by a gable, and a date panel is set in the gablehead. There are single lights at the first and second floors between the first and second bays, and the outer right corner is rounded.

The north elevation facing Marchmont Crescent has three bays with altered shopfronts at the ground level. The first bay features bipartite windows, while the third floor window has a pediment. The second bay contains single windows, and the third bay has single windows at the first and second floors. The second and third bays are linked above the eaves by a gablet-crowstepped gable. The windows are plate glass sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and features two rendered and lined gablehead stacks, a rendered and lined wallhead stack, and scroll skewputts.

The interior was not seen in 1991.