59, 61 Leith Walk, Edinburgh

59 and 61 Leith Walk is a three-storey, seven-bay commercial building dating from the later 19th century, which includes flats above and features a chamfered corner at the south end. The building has an L-plan layout, with polished sandstone ashlar frontages facing Leith Walk and rubble rear elevations that have ashlar dressings. It features a base course, a cill course at the ground floor, and an architrave and frieze above the shopfronts. There is a cornice at the first-floor window cill level and at the eaves.

On the west elevation, the windows are regularly spaced, with round-arched moulded and arcaded windows at the ground floor, although the aprons have been removed in the bays to the left. The first-floor windows are architraved and corniced, with projecting cills on the second-floor windows. A round-arched entrance door is located in the corner bay, featuring two-leaf panelled doors and a fanlight.

The south elevation, facing Crown Street, consists of four bays. It has round-arched window openings at the ground floor that correspond to those on the west elevation, except for the fourth bay, which has a square-headed door opening with a moulded surround, a panelled door, and a three-pane fanlight, along with an oval window set in a panel above. The second bay has bipartite windows on the first and second floors, with architraves and cornices at the first floor and projecting sills at the second floor.

The east (rear) elevations show polished ashlar up to the first floor level at the gable, which is visible to the left of a rendered section marking the gable end of an adjacent now-demolished building. There is a single bay at the rear of the Leith Walk block.

The ground floor of No 59 features modern glazing, while No 61 has multi-pane timber sash and case windows with a timber transom and a radial fanlight above. The first and second floors have 8-pane timber sash and case windows, and there is a 5-pane timber window in an oval opening at the fourth bay of the south elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended shape at the southeast corner. A single cast-iron downpipe is located between the fourth and fifth bays, complete with decorative brackets. The building has multi-flue, coped apex stacks at the gables and along the west ridge, as well as a six-flue wallhead stack that is corniced with a string course and shouldered at the base, positioned to the outer left of the south elevation.