Valleyfield House, Leven Street, Edinburgh

Valleyfield House, located on Leven Street in Edinburgh, was designed by David McGibbon and built between 1867 and 1870. This four-storey corner block features tenement flats with shops on the ground floor. The building is splayed at the corner and has an angled return at Glengyle Terrace, constructed from polished ashlar. It includes cill courses at the first, second, and third floors, as well as a mutuled eaves course. The windows are bracketed, with stone mullions for the bipartite windows, corniced at the first floor, and slightly battered at the third. The building is ornamented with high-quality chip carving.

On the west elevation facing Leven Street, there are three shops on the ground floor with openings in stop-chamfered, shoulder-arched surrounds. Above, there are four bays: the left bay contains bipartite windows, the centre bays have single windows, and the right bay is blind with a wallhead chimney stack above. The elevation features channelled quoins, and the shop door on the corner is also in a stop-chamfered shoulder-arched surround, with single windows above.

The south elevation facing Glengyle Terrace has six bays. A shop window is located on the ground floor to the left, with alternating windows and doors to the right. The timber panelled doors have plate glass fanlights in corniced, moulded surrounds, and there are stone steps and platts that over-sail the basement areas. The outer bays above contain bipartite windows, while the three centre bays have single windows. Bipartites are also present at the splayed corner to the right.

The property features spear-headed cast-iron railings mounted on a low stone coped wall surrounding the basement areas and steps. The windows predominantly consist of plate glass in timber sash and case style, and the roof is covered with grey slates. Rendered stacks are present at the wallhead and ridge, with a splayed design.