5, 6 North Charlotte Street, Edinburgh

5 and 6 North Charlotte Street in Edinburgh is a classical tenement building, constructed between 1790 and 1792 by James Tait, with later alterations by A G Sydney Mitchell. This four-storey building features a basement and attic and is located on a splayed corner site, with the ground floor built out. It is made of droved Craigleith sandstone ashlar with polished dressings and has long and short quoins.

The Queen Street elevation has five bays with regular window arrangement, a cornice, and a blocking course. A later addition includes an arcaded timber bar at the ground level, supported by panelled Composite pilasters. There are two bowed slate-hung dormers with tripartite windows, the right one having blind sidelights.

The North Charlotte Street elevation has a six-bay gable end with a broad apex stack, and the ground rises by one storey to the south. The ground floor is built out as mentioned earlier, with a public bar to the left, an entrance to the common stair at the centre right bay, an entrance to the first floor at the inner right bay, and a shop at the far right. The left bay has a blocked third-floor window, the inner left bay has blind windows, and the centre bays feature attic windows in the gable head. The three right bays do not have a first floor due to the shops on the rising ground, and the attic is built up with a timber oriel window designed by TH Marwick, with drawings available in the National Monuments Record of Scotland.

The building has timber sash and case 12-pane windows, grey slate roofing, ashlar coped skews, and stone stacks. The interior has undergone considerable alterations, including the insertion of a timber stair that connects the first and second floor flats at No 6 North Charlotte Street.