3, 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh

John McLachlan, 1890 (nos 7-9) and Peter L Henderson, 1902 (No 3 -5 and Abbotsford Bar). Two adjoining 4-storey and attic blocks. Scottish Baronial revival block to right with corner turret and pub at ground floor with Jacobean revival interior. Coursed stugged red ashlar sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Segmental-headed windows. Cill course tat second floor.

W SECTION (NOS 7-9):. 5-bay original block, with 2 further matching bays added to W, circa 1975. Workshops for Jenners, now shop and café. Segmental arched shopfront at ground, projecting cills at 1st fllor; 2nd floor cillcourse and projecting lintel cornices; eaves course. 4 dormers; wrought-iron bracket sign. Stair bay to right with corniced door at ground and date stone. Broad 2-bay W gable with projecting central stack.

E SECTION (NO 3 AND ABBOTSFORD BAR): corner building with bar at ground and timber-panelled entrance doors to corner and outer left bay. Accommodation in upper floors. 3-bay Dutch gable to Rose Street corbelling out slightly at successive floors; segmental pediment. Recessed quadrant corner with bipartite windows and candle-snuffer roof. Macicoltaed cill course. Broad 3-bay gable to Rose Street North Lane; similarly detailed but with rectangular windows.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Pedimented ashlar gablehead stacks. Ashlar coped skews. Grey slates.

INTERIOR OF PUBLIC HOUSE: Jacobean Revival decorative scheme. Timber panelled doors to lobbies; etched glass to upper panels with 'The Abbotsford' on both leaves. Elaborate compartmented ceiling with foliate decoration within decorative panels and egg and dart mouldings to cornice. Two thirds height timber panelling to walls, some panels with mirrors. Door cases with pediments or deep architraves. Central island mahogany bar counter with carved brackets and richly carved superstructure with short paired supporting columns on deep bases, arcaded and moulded cornice with balustered rail. Counter for dispensing food to rear left with timber gantry with carvings, turned decorative columns and balustered architrave rail.