46 Great Junction Street, Edinburgh

46 Great Junction Street in Edinburgh is a block of three, five-bay, four-storey tenements built around 1870, featuring shops on the ground floor and Gothic architectural details. The building is constructed from cream sandstone, with droved ashlar and polished dressings, while the rear is made of coursed rubble. Notable exterior features include hood-moulds over the shops that connect to labelstops above the common stair doorways, cill courses on all floors, an eaves cornice, stop-chamfered reveals, and moulded lintels on the first and second floors. The first-floor windows have Corinthian mullions, the second-floor windows feature Corinthian columnar mullions, and the third-floor windows are adorned with carved trefoiled heads. The common stair doorways are roll-moulded and have segmental-shaped two-pane fanlights with hood-moulds that include floral labelstops.

On the southwest (front) elevation, each tenement has a common stair doorway in the center, flanked by shops. There are single windows above in the center bays, with the center window on the third floor having a pointed arch, a hood-mould, and a carved trefoil in the tympanum. A tall shouldered wallhead stack is positioned above this window, while the outer bays feature bipartite windows. Notably, Nos 40-46 have slightly elongated proportions and lack a wallhead stack. The outer right side, which used to be a pend, now serves as an entrance to a modern shopping center at the rear, featuring a period cast-iron entrance porch that has been relocated to this site.

The original shopfront of No 46 has slender carved mullions, while No 44 showcases a well-preserved 1930s fishmongers front and tiled interior. The remaining shopfronts have been replaced with modern designs.

On the northeast (rear) elevation, there are single windows. The building primarily features timber sash and case windows, with some plate glass or four-pane glazing and a few modern replacements. The slate roof has two wallhead stacks linked to it, along with mutual stacks that are mostly rebuilt, originally having rounded arrises over the shoulders. The eaves gutters are moulded.

The interior was not seen in 1993.