3 Annandale Street, Edinburgh

Robert Brown, 1825. Classical tenement block with symmetrical 5-bay, 3-storey basement and attic elevation to Annandale Street; advanced 1-bay pavilions to outer left and right. Smooth V-jointed rustication to ground floor, polished ashlar to upper floors (droved ashlar to basement; coursed rubble with dressed margins to rear). Dividing band between basement and ground floor; dividing band between ground and 1st floors; cill band to 1st floor; cill band to 2nd floor; band course and main cornice between 2nd and attic floor; eaves cornice; corniced parapet (solid with sunk panels to pavilions; balustraded to centre section. Round-arched openings to outer and centre bays to ground floor. Regular fenestration; architraved windows (with triangular pediment and consoles to pavilions) to 1st floor.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to centre bay and left pavilion, timber panelled door with sunk-panelled stone doorpiece and segmental fanlight with radiating glazing pattern; to right pavilion, window in round-arched recess; steps and platt overarching basement recess to each doorway.

GLAZING etc: predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; 15-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to 1st floor. Pitched roof; grey slates; stone skews and skewputts. 1 corniced, droved ashlar ridge stack to left; 1 corniced, droved ashlar gablehead stack to right; circular cans to both stacks.

RAILINGS: to edge of basement recess and platts, stone copes (edging basement only) surmounted by distinctive ornate cast iron railings.