46 Great Junction Street, Edinburgh

Circa 1870. Block of 3, 5-bay 4-storey tenements with shops at ground floor and Gothic details. Cream sandstone, droved ashlar with polished dressings, coursed rubble to rear. Hood-mould over shops joining labelstops to common stair doorways; cill courses to all floors; eaves cornice; stop-chamfered reveals; moulded lintels at 1st and 2nd floor; 1st floor windows with Corinthian mullions; 2nd floor windows with Corinthian columnar mullion; 3rd floor windows with carved trefoiled heads; roll-moulded common stair doorways with segmental-shaped 2-pane fanlights and hoodmoulds with floral labelstops.

SW (FRONT) ELEVATION: each tenement with common stair doorway to centre flanked by shops. Single windows above to centre bays, centre window at 3rd floor pointed-arched with hood-mould and carved trefoil to tympanum, tall shouldered wallhead stack above; bipartite windows to outer bays.

Exception: Nos 40-46 slightly elongated proportions, no wallhead stack, formerly pend to outer right, now entrance to modern shopping centre to rear, entrance with period cast-iron entrance porch (moved to site).

Original shopfront No 46 with slender carved mullions; No 44 good 1930s fishmongers front and tiled interior; remaining shopfronts modern replacements.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: single windows.

Mostly timber sash and case windows, plate glass or 4-pane glazing, some modern replacements. Slate roof, 2 wallhead stacks linked to roof (see above), mutual stacks (mostly rebuilt), stacks originally with rounded arrises over shoulders. Moulded eaves gutters.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.