3 West Mayfield, Edinburgh

2 West Mayfield is a classical terrace building dating from around 1830. It is two storeys high with a basement and features a near symmetrical design with 12 bays. The building is constructed from cream sandstone ashlar, with droved stone at the basement of No 4A, and rubble at the basements of Nos 2A and 3A, as well as at the rear. Notable architectural elements include a base course, advanced cills on the ground floor windows, a dividing band course, reeded aprons, and a cill course on the first-floor windows. There is a cast iron palmette balcony at the first-floor windows of No 4, a cornice, and a blocking course with corniced dies.

On the west elevation facing South Mayfield, Nos 2-4A present a nine-bay facade. There are steps leading to recessed doorways at bays 1, 6, and 7 on the ground floor, with basement doors at bays 2, 6, and 7. Nos 2 and 3 have panelled doors, while No 4 features a modern glazed door. The windows include plate glass fanlights, with an umbrella fanlight above No 2, and single windows on both floors and the basement in the remaining bays. Nos 31 and 31A have an advanced shop at ground level, with a two-leaf panelled door at the outer angle to the right and a bowed, three-bay first floor above.

The east elevation facing Minto Street has five bays, with modern shops at ground level flanking a central tenement doorway that includes a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight. There are two single windows on the first floor above, with blind windows in the flanking bays and in the outer left bay.

The windows throughout the building are predominantly plate glass timber sash and case, with four panes in No 2 and twelve panes in the basements. The roof of No 4 is covered with grey slate and features rendered and coped ridge stacks, while other areas have flat or shallow roofs with corniced wall head stacks and octagonal moulded cans.

The interior was not seen in 1996. The property is bordered by a low coped and coursed boundary wall along the street, with higher mutual walls and original railings in the areas (though the railings to the steps have been replaced). There is also an original cast-iron lampstand on the boundary wall between Nos 2 and 3.