79, 81, 83 Duke Street, Leith, Edinburgh

79, 81, and 83 Duke Street is an early 19th-century, four-storey and basement tenement building with a simple classical design and seven bays. The building is set back from the street and features a front garden. It is constructed of cream sandstone, with coursed and squared rubble at the basement level, stugged ashlar with polished dressings above, and more coursed and squared rubble at the rear. The ground floor is rusticated, with a band course above it, and there is a dentilled eaves cornice with a blocking course.

On the southwest (front) elevation, the doorways alternate with single windows. The doors are deep-set and panelled, except for the doorway at No 79, which has a distinctive astragal pattern on all the fanlights. Each remaining bay at the ground floor and each floor above has single windows.

The northeast (rear) elevation features single windows and two wallhead stacks that have been rebuilt. The northwest elevation is gabled with a broad apex stack.

The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a slate roof, which includes two wallhead stacks and an apex stack, as well as mutual stacks that have been rebuilt.

The interior was not seen in 1993. A low rubble wall at the front is complemented by some iron railings.