5 South Gray Street, Edinburgh

5 South Gray Street in Edinburgh is a classical house built around 1815. It is two stories high and features three symmetrical bays. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone with ashlar dressings, while the sides and rear are constructed from rubble. The ground floor windows have advanced cills, and the first floor windows feature a cill course. The building is topped with a dentilled cornice and a blocking course.

On the entrance elevation, there is a central doorway with a two-leaf panelled outer door and a diamond-patterned fanlight. The doorpiece is adorned with engaged columns, carved paterae, and a dentilled cornice. Above the doorway, there is a single window on the first floor. Each of the outer bays on both floors also contains a single window.

The windows are made of plate glass and are timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended design, featuring some coped wallhead stacks and some single corniced wallhead stacks with moulded octagonal cans.

The interior was not seen in 1996.

Surrounding the property are boundary walls, gatepiers, and pedestrian gates. There is a low coped rubble wall facing the street, with higher rubble walls to the north and south. The gatepiers are corniced and topped with pyramidal caps, and there are pedestrian gates next to the house on both the north and south sides.