3 Annandale Street, Edinburgh

3 Annandale Street in Edinburgh is a classical tenement block designed by Robert Brown in 1825. The building features a symmetrical five-bay, three-storey elevation with a basement and attic facing Annandale Street, and has advanced one-bay pavilions on the outer left and right. The ground floor is characterized by smooth V-jointed rustication, while the upper floors are finished in polished ashlar. The basement is made of droved ashlar, and the rear is constructed from coursed rubble with dressed margins.

Architectural details include dividing bands between the basement and ground floor, as well as between the ground and first floors. There are cill bands at both the first and second floors, a band course and main cornice between the second and attic floors, an eaves cornice, and a corniced parapet that is solid with sunk panels on the pavilions and balustraded in the center section. The ground floor features round-arched openings in the outer and center bays.

The principal elevation includes a timber panelled door in the center bay and left pavilion, which has a sunk-panelled stone doorpiece and a segmental fanlight with a radiating glazing pattern. The right pavilion contains a window set in a round-arched recess. Each doorway is accessed by steps and a platt that overarches the basement recess.

The building predominantly features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with 15-pane glazing in the first-floor windows. The pitched roof is covered with grey slates and has stone skews and skewputts. There is one corniced, droved ashlar ridge stack on the left and one corniced, droved ashlar gablehead stack on the right, both with circular cans.

Stone copes edge the basement recess and platts, topped with distinctive ornate cast iron railings.