3 Greenhill Place, Edinburgh

2 Greenhill Place is a group of twenty villas forming a symmetrical terrace, designed by Robert Reid Raeburn around 1875. The villas extend to two storeys with a mansard attic and a basement at the rear, and are arranged around a central pavilion block and terminal pavilion blocks. The buildings are constructed of lightly stugged ashlar stone with polished dressings. A base course and dividing band course are present, with cornices bracketed at specific points along the terrace. The windows are architraved, with segmental arches at the first-floor level of the pavilion blocks. The doorways have pilastered, consoled, and corniced doorpieces, except in the pavilion blocks, which have simpler detailing. The original panelled doors retain plate glass fanlights. Dormers are lugged and pedimented, and bipartite windows are positioned above canted or advanced bays. Raised quoins are prominent.

The central pavilion block (Nos. 8-11) is a twelve-bay symmetrical block. Pilastered doorways with consoled pediments are found in the 6th and 7th bays, with single windows above. Doorways are also present in the 2nd, 4th, 9th, and 11th bays, with single windows at first floor. Advanced tripartite windows are located in the 1st, 5th, 8th and 12th bays. The block features French pavilion roofs with decorative iron brattishing, though the brattishing is missing from the 12th bay. Full-height canted windows punctuate the 3rd and 10th bays.

The pavilion block at the outer left (No. 1, facing Strathearn Place) has a four-bay elevation: a round-arched, roll-moulded doorway is in the advanced 2nd bay, leading to a two-leaf panelled door and plate glass fanlight. A consoled cornice sits above, with a single window at first floor. The French pavilion roof is topped with gabled dormers and pointed arch lights to the south and east faces, along with iron brattishing and a finial. A full-height canted window is located in the bay to the outer left. The pavilion block at the outer right (No. 20, facing north) also has a three-bay elevation: a doorway with consoled pediment is in the 2nd bay, with a single window positioned above. Bipartite windows are at ground floor in the 1st bay, and a single window is at first floor. A full-height canted window is in the advanced bay to the outer right.

Villas 2-7 and 14-19 are twelve-bay structures, with doorways and single windows at first floor in the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, and 11th bays, and full-height canted windows in the remaining bays. The villas feature plate glass sash and case windows. The roofs are purple-grey slate mansard roofs swept at the eaves, with corniced mutual stacks, coped mutual walls, moulded octagonal cans, and moulded eaves guttering.

The interiors were not inspected in 1991.

Low coped boundary walls line the street, and original cast-iron railings are still in place between Nos. 19 and 20.