7, 15 Rose Street, Edinburgh

3 and 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh, were designed by John McLachlan in 1890 (numbers 7-9) and Peter L Henderson in 1902 (numbers 3-5 and the Abbotsford Bar). They are two adjoining four-storey and attic blocks. The block on the right is in the Scottish Baronial revival style, with a corner turret and a public house on the ground floor, featuring a Jacobean revival interior. It is built in coursed, stugged red ashlar sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Segmental-headed windows are a characteristic feature, along with a cill course at the second floor level.

The western section consists of five bays in the original block, with two further matching bays added to the west around 1975. These were originally workshops for Jenners, and are now a shop and café. A segmental arched shopfront is at ground level, with projecting cills at the first floor, a second-floor cill course, and projecting lintel cornices; an eaves course is also present. There are four dormers and a wrought-iron bracket sign. A stair bay to the right has a corniced door at ground level and a date stone. A broad, two-bay western gable features a projecting central stack.

The eastern section is a corner building, with a public house at ground level and timber-panelled entrance doors to the corner and the outer left bay. Accommodation is located on the upper floors. The Rose Street-facing gable has a three-bay Dutch gable, corbelling out slightly at successive floors and culminating in a segmental pediment. A recessed quadrant corner has bipartite windows and a candle-snuffer roof. A macolitated cill course is visible. The gable facing Rose Street North Lane is broad with three bays, similarly detailed but with rectangular windows. Plate glass is set within timber sash and case windows. Pedimented ashlar gablehead stacks are prominent, along with ashlar coped skews and grey slates.

The public house’s interior is decorated in a Jacobean revival style. It features timber-panelled doors to lobbies, etched glass with 'The Abbotsford' on both leaves in the upper panels, an elaborate compartmented ceiling with foliate decoration within decorative panels and egg and dart mouldings to the cornice. The walls are timber-panelled to two-thirds height, some panels with mirrors. Door cases incorporate pediments or deep architraves. A central, island mahogany bar counter is present, featuring carved brackets, a richly carved superstructure with short paired supporting columns on deep bases, an arcaded and moulded cornice, and a balustered rail. Behind the bar, a counter for dispensing food has a timber gantry with carvings, turned decorative columns, and a balustered architrave rail.