5 Alva Street, Edinburgh

7 Alva Street in Edinburgh is an A-listed classical terrace building designed by J Gillespie Graham in 1823 and constructed by R Hutchinson between 1826 and 1830. The terrace features 33 bays and consists of 2 and 3-storey units with attic and basement levels, all unified under a townhouse façade that includes main-door and common stair flats behind. Notably, No. 15 has a later corniced, slate-hung storey.

The exterior is made of sandstone ashlar, which is droved at the basement and channelled at the ground floor. The entrance platts extend over the basement, and there is a band course at the ground floor along with a banded cill course at the first floor. The building has a corniced eaves course and a balustraded parapet. Openings at the first floor are framed with architraved and corniced surrounds, and there are cast-iron anthemion balconies.

The windows are predominantly 15-pane and 12-pane timber sash and case, with some featuring plate glass. The roof is a double pitch M section covered with grey slates, and there are corniced ashlar ridge stacks topped with modern clay cans. The basement recess to the street is bordered by cast-iron railings on ashlar coping stones.

Inside, the interior showcases a Greek decorative scheme characterized by cornicing with a Greek key motif. The building was converted for office and residential use in 2008.