60, 60A Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh

60 and 60A Constitution Street is an early 19th-century, three-storey, five-bay former bank featuring classical architectural details. The building is constructed from cream sandstone with an ashlar front, stugged ashlar on the side elevation, and coursed and squared rubble at the rear. It has a base course, a rusticated ground floor, and a band course above the ground floor adorned with delicate foliate Vitruvian scroll ornament. The first floor has a cill course, blind balustrades acting as aprons for the first-floor windows, and architraved windows on both the first and second floors. The first-floor windows are corniced, featuring honeysuckle carving on the frieze, and the building is topped with a dentilled eaves cornice and a blocking course.

On the front elevation, there is a pilastered ashlar closed Roman Doric porch at the center, which has a balustraded parapet and single windows on the returns. The entrance consists of a two-leaf panelled door with a rectangular plate glass fanlight, and there is a door to a common stair on the outer left, also with a panelled door and rectangular plate glass fanlight. The building has regular fenestration.

The rear elevation has a centre bay that is advanced, featuring a round-arched stair window, with single windows in the outer bays. The elevation facing Maritime Lane is three bays wide, with single barred windows at the ground floor. The first and second-floor windows are mostly blocked up, except for the centre window on the second floor. The wallhead is slightly raised between tall wallhead stacks.

The windows throughout the building are timber sash and case with either plate glass or four-pane glazing, while the second-floor windows have timber casements with small-pane glazing at the rear. The roof is a slate piend and platform style, with two wallhead stacks to the north and two to the south. It features a moulded eaves gutter and a recessed downpipe channel in the northeast angle, complete with an ornamental gutterhead.

Inside, the vestibule showcases ornate cornices and a round-arched inner door with a mask keystone. The ground floor has a compartmental ceiling with ornate cornices.