3 Douglas Gardens, Edinburgh

4 Douglas Gardens in Edinburgh is a terrace of townhouses built by John Watherston and Sons in 1890. The terrace features a unified façade with three stories and a basement, consisting of two bays with gabled roofs and plain classical detailing. The main entrance and common stair flats are located behind the façade. The building is set on a steeply sloping ground that falls to the north, with a basement area that includes some vaulted cellars and retaining walls.

A later addition from 1933 is an ashlar stair with rounded copes located on the far right side, leading to the upper floors of No. 1. The design includes canted two-storey bays topped with a dentilled cornice and balustrades made of straight stone balusters, all set within slightly advanced steeply gabled bays. The exterior is constructed of sandstone ashlar, featuring entrance platts that oversail the basements and a banded base course. The eaves course is corniced, with moulded architraves and corniced cills.

The doors are two-leaf timber panelled with plain rectangular fanlights above, set in an architraved doorway that has a dentilled cornice and an open, semi-circular, scrolled pediment above it. The second floor features bipartite windows above the canted bays, with 12- and 9-pane over plate glass in timber sash and case windows. The roof is a double pitch M-section covered with grey slates, and it includes a corniced ashlar ridge and gable end stacks, along with ashlar skews and modern octagonal clay cans. The basement recess to the street is edged with ashlar coping stone and features cast-iron railings, while cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.