74, 76, 78 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh

74, 76, and 78 Marchmont Crescent in Edinburgh is a four-storey, five-bay tenement built in 1883 by R Roberts, designed in a Baronial style and forming part of a curved terrace. The building is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone, featuring polished ashlar dressings. It has a base course, a dividing band course above the ground floor, and dividing string courses above the first and second floors, with chamfered reveals.

On the west entrance elevation, there is a doorway and a single window to the inner right, a doorway and a bipartite window to the inner left, and a central doorway with panelled doors and a plate glass fanlight. The outer left and right bays have full-height canted windows that are corbelled to square crowstepped gableheads with stone finials, and there are blank rectangular panels in the gableheads. The central bay is slightly advanced and three storeys high, corbelled at the first floor, with tripartite windows on all floors. The fourth-floor window breaks the eaves in a stone finialled gable that features a circular floral patera. The remaining bays have single windows, with floor windows breaking the eaves in finialled pedimented dormers.

The building has plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, a corniced mutual stack, moulded octagonal cans, and beak skewputts. The interiors were not seen in 1990. There is a low saddleback wall to the street.