17, 19, 21 Leith Street, Edinburgh

Circa 1780. Double tenement block with near-symmetrical 4-storey and attic, 11-bay elevation to Leith Street. Droved ashlar with polished cills (some painted polished ashlar at ground floor), rubble (some coursed) to rear. Modern timber shopfronts to ground floor. Dividing band between ground and 1st floor (to left only); 1st floor cill band (to left); eaves cornice; blocking course. Regular fenestration.

NW (LEITH STREET) ELEVATION: timber-panelled door with semicircular fanlight in round arched opening to centre. Flanking shopfronts left and right. To roof above; pitched-roof dormers at 1st, 2nd, 5th, 7th 10th and 11th bays; internal dormers at 3rd and 9th bays.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: 7-storey elevation with 2 nepus gables and dormerheaded windows breaking eaves. Irregular fenestration with predominantly droved margins, many later alterations and additions.

GLAZING etc: modern plate glass in timber frames to ground floor; 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to upper floors and dormers. Dormers have timber fascias; grey slate haffits and roofs. Mansard roof (see notes), grey slate, stone skews and skewputts. To left and right, stone and brick gablehead stacks with circular cans; central pair of brick ridge stacks with circular cans, connected by stone parapet.