3-7 Grassmarket, Edinburgh

3-7 Grassmarket in Edinburgh is a tenement building designed by John Charles Hay in 1876. It has four storeys and an attic, featuring a symmetrical five-bay layout with shops on the ground floor. The building showcases Scots Baronial architectural details, constructed from squared and snecked stugged sandstone with ashlar dressings.

The original shop fronts include cast-iron columns and Gothic pilasters, topped by a cornice with egg and dart moulding. There is a door to the flats on the right side, and above the shops, semicircular panels display the arms of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank. A moulded string course runs between the first and second floors, while the first-floor windows are framed in roll-moulded surrounds. The outer bays and the centre at the first floor feature stone-mullioned bipartite windows, and there is a cusped panel above the central first-floor window. Below the third-floor cill course, a corbelled course adds detail. The central dormer features a two-bay crowstepped gabled design with a decoratively corbelled-out apex stack, flanked by two additional crowstepped gabled dormerheads.

Inside, there is an oval room at the rear with decorative plasterwork. The building has plate glass in timber sash and case windows and is topped with grey slates. The apex and ridge stacks are rendered and feature circular cans.