1, 2, 3 Brunton Place, Edinburgh

1, 2, 3 Brunton Place in Edinburgh is a classical tenement building designed by John Chesser and constructed by Laurie and Scott in 1888. This four-storey structure features a nine-bay elevation, although the ground floor has only eight bays. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, with coursed rubble and dressed margins at the rear. Key architectural details include a base course, a dividing band between the ground and first floors, a moulded cill course at the first floor, a cill band at the second floor, and a modillioned cornice separating the second and third floors. There is also a cill band at the third floor, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The building has a predominantly regular arrangement of windows, which are framed with architraves on the first, second, and third floors.

On the principal south elevation, the central bay at ground level features a timber-panelled door that provides access to the common stair, topped with a letterbox fanlight. This door is framed by a doorpiece consisting of two engaged fluted Greek Doric columns that support an entablature and a pediment, which breaks the cill course of the first floor. To the left and right of this central bay are three-bay groupings that include narrow windows with extended cills in the inner bays and timber-panelled doors leading to the main door flat, also with letterbox fanlights. These doors are framed by Greek Doric pilasters, with a slightly projecting entablature above the central bays, while the outer bays feature windows with recessed surrounds and aprons.

The building predominantly uses plate glass in its timber sash and case windows. The roof has a pitched design on both the front and rear elevations, with a flat or near-flat section in the center, covered with graded grey slates. The roof features stone skews and skewputts, with mutual ridge stacks located at the far right and left, three stacks on the front pitch, and a wallhead stack at the rear. All stacks are rendered and corniced, with circular and octagonal cans.