5 St Vincent Street, Edinburgh

5 St Vincent Street in Edinburgh is an early 19th century terraced tenement designed by Robert Reid and William Sibbald. This four-storey building, with a basement and an attic on the fourth storey, features a façade made of broached ashlar sandstone. The principal floor showcases V-jointed rustication, along with a base course and band courses between the basement and principal floor, as well as between the principal and first floors. The windows on the first and second floors have projecting cills, and there are cornices at the second and third floors. The entrance includes ashlar steps and platts that overhang the basement.

On the principal elevation, there is a round-arched doorpiece with a six-panel timber common stair door and a radial semicircular fanlight, located in the bay to the left of the centre at the principal floor. There are also round-arched doorpieces in the outer left bay and the third bay from the right, featuring panelled timber doors, with a two-leaf door at No 5 and radial semicircular fanlights above. The remaining bays have regular fenestration at the principal floor and on the floors above, as well as in the basement. To the right at the basement, there is a two-bay public house (No 11, St Vincent Bar), which includes an architraved doorpiece with a recessed door on the left and a four-pane window on the right.

The northeast elevation has a coursed rubble gable with windows centered on all floors, including a small light to the right at the principal floor and another small light to the left at the third floor. There is a single-storey rubble addition on the right with a modern timber door to the left of the east return.

The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows and has a grey slate M-roof. The ridge and gablehead stacks are made of rubble and have broached ashlar quoins, which are coped and topped with circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1997, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters. The property is also adorned with ashlar copes topped by cast-iron railings featuring fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple finials.