31 Shore, Leith, Edinburgh

27 Shore is a three-storey, ten-bay tenement block in Leith, Edinburgh, rebuilt by D Menzies in 1888, incorporating earlier elements. The building features crowstepped gables and a symmetrical design above the shops on the ground floor. It is constructed of cream sandstone with a polished ashlar ground floor, squared and snecked stugged rubble with polished ashlar dressings, rendered margins, and coursed rubble at the rear. A corbel course runs above the first floor.

The west (front) elevation has a plain roll-moulded doorway located off-centre to the right, featuring a tripartite door with stained glass sidelights and upper panels. Above the door is a decorative iron lamp-bracket, with a later scrolled iron bracket above it that holds a 19th-century ship model. The shopfront to the right has basket-arched openings with stop-chamfered reveals, while to the left is a modern replacement timber pub front. The first and second floors have single windows, with the second floor windows just breaking the eaves and adorned with finialled crowstepped gables over the centre and outer bays. Pairs of windows flank the centre, featuring finialled moulded pedimented dormerheads. The gables of the outer bays have pierced trefoils, and the central gable displays a carved panel of a ship dated 1676.

The east (rear) elevation has two bays on the outer left that project with a crowstepped gable and an apex stack. It features irregular single and bipartite windows, with the second floor windows just breaking the eaves and having piended roofs. There is a tall tripartite stair window to the left, which is a later alteration with concrete lintels.

The building has small-pane timber sash and case windows, a slate roof with metal flashings, an apex stack, and a transverse stack. Corbelled beak skewputts and a moulded eaves gutter with gutterheads complete the exterior.

The interior was not seen in 1993.