3-3A Dalrymple Crescent, Edinburgh

3-3A Dalrymple Crescent is an Italianate villa built around 1863. This two-storey building features a rectangular plan, with the first floor breaking the eaves, a tower on the east side, and a service wing on the west. The exterior is made of squared and snecked sandstone rubble, accented with polished ashlar dressings. Notable architectural details include a base course, a cornice, quoin strips, and segmental-arched windows on the first floor, which have roll-moulded arrises.

On the east elevation, a square-section tower is advanced to the center and flanked by blank bays. The tower rises three storeys and has an architraved doorway on the south return, leading to a panelled door with a plate glass fanlight above. The tower features a raised surround, a bracketed cill, and segmental-arched windows on three faces at the first floor. The second floor has bipartite round-arched windows with aprons on three faces and a single round-arched window on the west face. The tower is topped with a pyramidal roof and a cast-iron weathervane finial.

The south elevation, facing Dalrymple Crescent, showcases a full-height canted window with a dividing cornice and fluted aprons in the central bay. There is a small window between the bays and an advanced tripartite window at ground level on the outer left, which has a cornice supporting a cast-iron window guard above a pedimented bipartite window on the first floor. The service wing is recessed and attached to the outer left.

The west elevation features a single-storey piend-roofed service wing at ground level, with a single pedimented segmental-arched window with raised surrounds and a bracketed cill breaking the eaves on the outer right. A stair window with margin panes is located at the center on the first floor.

The villa has plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate piended roof with lead flashing, and a corniced stack with moulded octagonal cans at the tower head. There are also two corniced stacks on the west side with moulded square cans, moulded eaves guttering, and a finial on the canted bay.

The interiors were not seen in 1990. The property is enclosed by high mutual walls and a boundary wall to the street.