3 Chalmers Crescent, Edinburgh

Almost certainly R ThorntonShiells, circa 1865, 2-storey, 3-bay villa with lower 2-storey wing recessed to outer left; subdivided. Stugged and snecked ashlar; polished window dressings with droved margins and chamfered reveals; stop-chamfered quoins; dividing band of diamond-pattern incontrasting sandstones.

E (ENTRANCE) ELOEVATION: steeply pitched gabled timber porch at centre, with encaustic tiled floor, 4 detached piers, shaped rafters, grey slate roof with bands of green fishscale slates; shouldered and architraved door surround; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; tripartite vestibule door with etched glass panels. Bipartite windows at ground floor flanking centre to right and left with disengaged column-mullions and foliate capitals (windows operate behind) mullions as 4-pane sash and case); bipartite window detailed as above breaking eaves in piend-roofed and lead-finialled dormerhead at 1st floor centre; single windows breaking eaves and roofed asabove in bays.

Lower recessed bay with piended roof to outer left; modern single storey porch at re-entrant angle; single 1st floor window breaking eaves as above.

N ELEVATION: blank (abutted by modern garage).

S ELEVATION: secondary entrance.

W ELEVATION: single storey piend-roofed service wing projecting to outerleft; irregular fenestration; single window breaking eaves in piend-roofed dormerhead to right; 2-storey advanced bay to outer right; secondary entrance at ground floor; single window breaking eaves above.

4-pane sash and case windows; 2 fixed pane windows with borders to W. Grey slate piended roof; lead flashing; 2 wallhead stacks with sawtooth coping to S; single wallhead stacks to N and W; some original rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1990.

High mutual boundary walls; low boundary wall to street. Single storey garage attached to N.