3 Chester Street, Edinburgh

John Lessels, 1862-70. 3-storey attic and basements, extensive astylar renaissance terrace with unified townhouse façade and main-door and common stair flats behind, slightly advanced 4-storey corner blocks; later ashlar attic storey to W corner block. Basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls. Sandstone ashlar; droved ashlar at basement, channelled ashlar at ground floor. Entrance platts oversailing basements. Banded base course between basement and ground floor. Banded cill courses at 1st and 2nd floors; E corner block; moulded cill courses; bracketed cills at 2nd floor. Moulded cill course at attic, fielded panels alternating with windows above. Corniced consoled eaves course. Architraved windows, corniced at 1st floor. W corner block: stepped parapet with plain fielded panels. Recessed round arched surrounds at ground floor; corniced and pedimented at 1st floor. Centre terrace: architraved windows at 1st floor, segementally arched and with small rosette to cornice in alternate openings. Moulded architraved windows at 2nd floor. Cast-iron balconies.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Timber 6-panel doors in round arched surrounds with plain fanlight. Additional narrow sidelights to W corner block. Double pitch M-section roof; grey slates. Corniced ashlar gable and ridge stacks with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings on ashlar coping stone edging basement recess to street. Cast-iron rainwater goods.