3-5 Portland Place, Leith, Edinburgh

3-5 Portland Place is a classical tenement building constructed around 1821. It stands four storeys tall on a raised basement and features eight bays. The exterior is made of cleaned cream sandstone droved ashlar with polished dressings. The building has a base course, a rusticated ground floor with a band course above, a cill course at the third floor, and a cornice. The windows are regularly spaced, and the doors are flat-panelled.

The basement includes a door in the left bay, while the seven right bays are advanced and contain five two-bay shops, each with a window and a two-leaf panelled door. There is ashlar coping that supports spearhead railings, and a straight flight of steps on the left leads to the principal floor terrace. The principal floor features a tenement door in the fourth bay from the left, which has a three-pane rectangular fanlight and blind windows above. The main doors are located in the second bay (with a three-pane fanlight) and the sixth bay (with a sunburst fanlight).

The south gable end is harled and was formerly attached to the adjacent building. The rear elevation is constructed of rubble. The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, grey slate roofing, coped ashlar stacks, and ashlar coped skews.