13, 15 Salvesen Crescent, Muirhouse, Edinburgh

1 and 3 Salvesen Crescent in Muirhouse, Edinburgh, were built around 1951 and consist of four matching, two-storey, eight-bay rectangular-plan blocks. Each block features a mirrored pair of four-bay houses, divided horizontally to create two flats. The inner bays have four-light canted windows, while the outer bays are set back and include a swept screen-walled dog-leg forestair leading to the upper flats. There is a gabled projection at the back of the building that is positioned at right angles. The exterior is finished in roughcast over brick, with artificial stone dressings, a base course, and an eaves course. The doors have long and short surrounds, and the canted windows feature chamfered stone mullions.

On the principal elevation facing south, there is a canted window at ground level in the central bays, with bipartite windows above each bay. Each bay on both floors has a bipartite window flanking the central section. There are boarded doors at ground level in the penultimate bays on the left and right. A flat-roofed entrance porch with a boarded door is located at the first floor in the bays set back to the outer left and right.

The west and east side elevations feature a bipartite window at each floor in the projecting single bay to the left (and to the right on the east side). There are three boarded store doors closely spaced at ground level, spanning the central internal angle, along with a small window set back above to the left and a window to the entrance porch at the first floor above. The main block behind has a blank gable. A forestair is positioned to the right of the center, with a window to the main block at the first floor above.

The buildings predominantly feature 12-pane timber sash and case windows, although some have been replaced with uPVC. The roofs are covered with grey slate, originally red tiles. The artificial stone skews and copes, stepped and blocked roughcast skewputts, and roughcast, coped stacks on the south pitch are complemented by a full set of short cylindrical cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interiors were not seen in 1998. The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of low roughcast walls topped with ridged artificial stone copes, and the square-plan gatepiers have shallow pyramidal caps with timber gates. Numbers 1 and 3, along with 9-15 (odd numbers) and 10, feature uPVC windows, while number 7 has later wrought-iron railings and a balustrade over the stores.