5 Gloucester Place, Edinburgh

5 Gloucester Place in Edinburgh is a four-storey building with a basement, designed by Thomas Bonnar between 1822 and 1824. It features a seven-bay end pavilion as part of a terraced block, constructed from polished sandstone ashlar. The principal floor showcases V-jointed rustication, while the basement is finished with broached ashlar. There is a band course at the principal floor, a cill course at the first and third floors, and a cornice with a blocking course at the fourth floor. The central three bays are slightly advanced, with ashlar steps leading to the entrance, which has an oversailing platts.

The northern elevation, which is the principal facade, has three central bays that are advanced and feature round-arched doorways with recessed flush panelled doors and radial fanlights. Windows are present in the outer left and right bays as well as on the floors above, with some blind windows on the first floor in the outer left bay and the penultimate bay to the left on the second and third floors. Decorative cast-iron balconies adorn the first-floor bays, except for the central bay. The windows in the central three bays have architraves and cornices. The basement area is flagged and has predominantly vertically boarded timber doors leading to the cellars.

The eastern elevation, which faces India Street, includes a five-bay block that is advanced from No. 42 India Street. The outer bays are also advanced and framed by Ionic pilasters on the upper floors. The fenestration is regular across all floors, featuring tripartite windows in the outer left and right bays, with those on the first and second floors set in recessed segmental-arch panels.

The building predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods. It has harled ridge stacks, a broached ashlar wallhead stack, and a central panelled wallhead stack with a cornice, all capped with circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1997. The property is also adorned with ashlar copes topped by cast-iron railings featuring fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple finials along Gloucester Place, and similar balusters with quasi-Maltese cross finials along India Street. Additionally, there are cast-iron lamps mounted on the railings, complete with glass globes.