12, 14, 16 And 18 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh

4, 6, 8 and 10 Jeffrey Street in Edinburgh are two Scots Baronial tenement blocks designed by James Lessels and Harry Ramsay Taylor in 1891. These buildings are stepped to accommodate the slope of the ground, with shops located on the ground floor facing Jeffrey Street, following the gentle curve of both Jeffrey Street and Cranston Street. The southern block is three stories tall with an attic, while the northern block has two stories and an attic, with an additional two stories at the rear of both blocks.

The buildings feature corner tourelles with candle-snuffer roofs that are corbelled out at the second floor on the northern side, while the elevation facing Cranston Street is more plain. They are constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced yellow sandstone with polished margins, and include cill courses at the first and second floors. The gableheads are finialled, crowstepped, and have segmental pediments.

On the western elevation facing Jeffrey Street, the northern block has a broad central wallhead gable with a corbelled apex stack, flanked by segmental-pedimented and crowstepped gabled dormerheads. The southern block features a crowstepped gable on the left with a round-arched attic window, a central wallhead stack, and segmental-pedimented and crowstepped dormerheads. The first-floor windows are corniced, and the shopfronts, which have been altered, feature stop-chamfered openings that are shouldered to the flats above.

The eastern elevation facing Cranston Street shows the southern block with a central wallhead stack and flanking crowstepped wallhead dormers. The northern block has an asymmetrical crowstepped wallhead stack with flanking wallhead dormers that are crowstepped and triangular-pedimented. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, featuring four panes at the rear. The roofs are slate, with massive end stacks and circular clay cans.