3, 3A Queen's Crescent, Edinburgh

3 and 3A Queen's Crescent is an Italianate style house built around 1870, with some modern additions. It is two storeys high with an attic and features three bays in an asymmetrical layout. The house has a prominent square-plan, three-stage tower on the outer left. The exterior is made of cream sandstone polished ashlar, with a channelled finish at the ground level, and squared and snecked rubble on the sides and rear. It has a base course, a dividing band course, and advanced hoodmoulds with plain keystones and nail head springers above the openings. The first floor and attic windows have advanced cills, and there is a carved floreate motif between the lights on both floors of the canted bay. The eaves are overhanging and supported by brackets.

On the south elevation, there is a segmental arched doorway leading into the tower at ground level, featuring a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight above. Above this doorway, there is a narrow single round arched window on the first floor and a bipartite round arched window in the attic. To the outer right, there is another doorway leading into the main house, which also has a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight, with a single segmental arched window above on the first floor. The outer right has a full-height, five-light canted window in the bay.

The east elevation features a single central window on the first floor. The west elevation has a modern garage attached at ground level, with single windows on the first floor and attic above the tower. There is a bowed bay to the left with bipartite round arched windows on the first floor. A modern extension is attached to the rear.

The windows are made of plate glass and timber sash and case. The roofs are covered with grey slate and have piended designs, with coped wallhead stacks.

The interior was not seen in 1996. The property is enclosed by a low coped boundary wall along the street, with replacement railings.