21, 23, 25, 27, 29 Pitt Street, Leith, Edinburgh

21, 23, 25, 27, and 29 Pitt Street is a classical tenement building from 1859, featuring three storeys, a basement, and an attic, with a total of nine bays and three main door flats. The exterior is made of cleaned cream sandstone, with rustication at the ground level, droved surfaces on the basement and upper floors, and polished dressings. Architectural details include a base course, a band course above the rustication, a cill course at the first floor, and a cornice with a blocking course. The fenestration is regular, featuring rectangular two-pane and plate glass fanlights, with steps that oversail the basement recess leading to the doors.

On the south elevation facing Pitt Street, the central tenement door is located in the fifth bay, with main doors situated in the third, seventh, and eighth bays from the left. The fourth bay has a canted piend-roofed dormer, while the sixth and eighth bays feature canted flat-roofed dormers; the remaining bays have skylights.

The west elevation facing Trafalgar Lane presents a three-storey and attic four-bay rubble gable with irregular fenestration and an apex stack. The east elevation is a blank rendered gable with two windows at the centre and an apex stack.

The rear elevation is constructed of rubble and consists of seven bays, with dormers similar to those on the front, a pair of wallhead stacks, and canted timber windows in the outer bays. The building features twelve-pane timber sash and case windows, with some replaced by plate glass. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped rendered stacks and ashlar coped skews.

Additionally, there are cast-iron fleur-de-lys railings on a saddleback ashlar base leading to the steps and basement area.