1 Wellington Place, Edinburgh

1 Wellington Place in Edinburgh is a four-storey and basement tenement building from the earlier to mid 19th century. It features an eight-bay façade with a classical attic on the fourth storey and a U-shaped plan at the rear. The exterior is made of cream sandstone, with polished ashlar on the ground floor, tooled ashlar with polished dressings above, and droved ashlar on the basement. The southwest elevation has coursed and squared stone, while the rear is finished in coursed rubble. Architectural details include a channelled ground floor, a band course above, a cill band course at the first floor, a corbelled cornice above the third floor, and an eaves cornice with a blocking course.

On the southeast elevation facing Wellington Place, there is a common stair doorway to the left of centre, featuring a panelled door with a fanlight made up of four oval panes. Above this are single windows. The next bay to the left has a doorway with a panelled door and a rectangular plate glass fanlight, with single windows above. The sixth bay also has a doorway with a panelled door and rectangular plate glass fanlight, with single windows above. The remaining bays have single windows, and the doorways are accessed by bridges, with basement doorways on the flanks.

The southwest elevation facing Laurie Street consists of six bays, with single windows in the centre bays and broad blank bays on either side. There are three tall rendered wallhead stacks that have been rebuilt.

The northwest rear elevation features single windows and is formed by full-height rectangular projections, with a single bay to the left and two bays to the right. There is a rubble relieving arch on the inner flank of the left projection, along with two wallhead stacks.

The building has timber sash and case windows, with four panes on the front and twelve panes on the rear and sides. The roof is slate, with piend and platformed sections, and includes five wallhead stacks. The interior was not seen in 1993.

The front of the property has a low boundary wall with saddleback coping and plain iron railings.