5 John's Place, Leith, Edinburgh

3 John's Place in Leith, Edinburgh, is a terrace of eight houses built around 1825. These three-storey and basement homes feature classical details and a variety of doorcases, with a mews lane at the rear. The front is made of grey sandstone with stugged ashlar and polished dressings, while the sides and rear are constructed from coursed and squared rubble, some of which is pink. The basement is rusticated, and there is a band course above it, along with a band cill course at the ground floor that has roundels below the architraves, except for No 7, which has a moulded cill course. The eaves cornice is dentilled with a blocking course, and the ground floor windows are architraved and corniced.

The southeast front elevation has paired sections that mirror each other around the center, with doorways accessed by railed steps leading to the central bays. The fenestration is regular, with smaller classical attic windows on the second floor.

Notable features include tripartite pilastered doorpieces at Nos 3, 9, and 10, with panelled doors; No 3 has a dentilled cornice, while Nos 9 and 10 have small pane sidelights, and No 10 retains its original fanlight. No 4 features a Doric columned doorpiece with a dentilled cornice and paterae on the frieze, along with a panelled door and plate glass fanlight. Nos 5 and 6 have tripartite doorpieces with Ionic pilasters and dentilled cornices, featuring two-leaf panelled doors and plate glass fanlights. No 7 has a round-arched, pilastered, and corniced doorpiece with a panelled door and a semi-circular plate glass fanlight. No 8 includes a pilastered tripartite doorpiece with a segmental-arched fanlight framed by Ionic pilasters and a dentilled cornice, although the sidelights are blocked.

No 10 has two rectangular bipartite dormers. The windows are timber sash and case, mostly with plate glass glazing, while No 10 and Nos 3, 5, and 9 have replacement windows on the top floors. The slate roof has a metal ridge and broad mutual stacks.

The interior was not seen in 1993. The boundary walls are made of rubble with saddleback coping, some of which are rendered and have later railings. No 7 features square ashlar gatepiers with a dentilled cornice and remnants of a tall rubble boundary wall.