3 West Newington Place, Edinburgh

5-6 West Newington Place in Edinburgh is a classical tenement building designed by Thomas Brown around 1825. It has three storeys and a basement, featuring twelve bays. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone, with ashlar stonework on the ground floor and decorative elements including a base course, channelling on the ground floor, a dividing band course, panelled aprons beneath the first-floor windows, a cill course for the second-floor windows, and a cornice with a blocking course.

On the north elevation, the entrance is located in the penultimate bay to the outer left and in alternate bays to the right of the centre. The doorways have panelled doors, with a small-paned fanlight above the left door and plate glass fanlights above the doors to the right. The building features regular fenestration on the ground floor and above, predominantly consisting of plate glass, timber, sash and case windows, with some four-pane and twelve-pane designs. The roof is pitched and covered with grey slate, and there are rendered, coped ridge stacks with moulded cans. Original railings are present at the front steps and along the street.