3 Circus Lane, Edinburgh

13-15 Circus Lane in Edinburgh consists of earlier 19th-century, two-storey mews buildings constructed from coursed rubble, rendered and droved ashlar sandstone, with polished and droved ashlar dressings.

The north row, excluding No 17, features a continuous line of mews buildings, primarily three-bay, with a south-facing main elevation. The first floor has casement windows, and there are circular metal plaques reading '19-90' at No 5C. No 11 has a stone gabled dormer-headed window that breaks the eaves. Nos 13 and 15, known as Lackie Newton Ltd, present a symmetrical four-bay double coach house with modern doors featuring plate glass fanlights at the center of the ground floor, flanked by multi-pane windows in converted segmental-arched carriage openings. Above, two round-arched windows rise into the stone gable, breaking the eaves, with additional windows on either side at the first floor. No 27 features three regularly spaced stone dormer-headed windows that also break the eaves. The buildings display a variety of vertically-boarded timber doors, six-panel timber doors, modern garage doors, and various window styles.

Nos 6-8, which are even-numbered, include predominantly casement windows that are irregularly spaced on the ground and first floors. No 8 has a modern, vertically-boarded timber garage door and a window in a piended stone dormer head that breaks the eaves to the right.

No 10 is a two-storey, three-bay diamond-plan mews building, featuring a centrally located window on the ground floor, a vertically-boarded timber door to the right with ashlar steps, and vertically-boarded timber folding garage doors to the left with glazed upper panels and a timber lintel. There is a window to the left on the first floor, and a window with a cat-slide roof that breaks the eaves to the right. The gables are blank.

The buildings predominantly have timber sash and case windows, grey slate roofs, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The ridge and gablehead stacks are rendered and ashlar, coped, with circular cans, and the skews are also coped. The walls consist of coped random rubble, flanking No 10 and adjoining No 57 to the west, with a timber door leading to a pedestrian gate at the center.