65, 67, 69, 71, 73 Grassmarket, Edinburgh

65, 67, 69, 71, 73 Grassmarket is a tenement block built in 1875 by David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross, with alterations and additions made by James Jerdan in 1889-90. This four-storey, four-bay building features Scots Baronial details and has two crow-stepped gables with truncated apex stacks. The ground floor originally housed shops, which are now a lodging house café. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked stugged sandstone with polished dressings.

Notable features include a moulded cill course at the first and third floors, original shop fronts with tripartite shoulder-arched windows flanking a timber panelled door topped with a plate glass fanlight in a shoulder-arched opening. The first-floor windows have corniced and consoled moulded surrounds, while the second-floor windows feature bracketed projecting cills and moulded segmental relieving arches. The gabled dormerheads contain paired windows, and there are small round-arched gabletted windows at the apex.

At the rear, there is a tall pitched-roofed brick stair tower with stone crowsteps and corniced stacks. The building has four-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, grey slates on the roof, and corniced wallhead and ridge stacks with circular cans.