3 Albert Terrace, Edinburgh

1 Albert Terrace in Edinburgh is a terrace of nine houses built in 1863, each featuring three bays and two storeys, with classical architectural details and a basement at the rear. The buildings are constructed from cream ashlar, with a stugged ashlar front and polished dressings, while the rear and sides are made of stugged square and snecked rubble. The northwest corner has channelled quoins, and there is a base course and a cill band course at the first floor. The windows are architraved, and there are moulded panels beneath the ground floor windows. The eaves cornice and wallhead parapet consist of moulded stone panels and fireclay balusters, with stone herons at the corners of Nos 1 and 9.

On the front elevation, each house features a corniced doorway with an architraved surround in the right bay, a two-leaf panelled door, a plate glass rectangular fanlight, and tiled vestibules. There is a single window above at the first floor, with the centre and left bays having single windows at both the ground and first floors. Nos 4 to 9 include tripartite canted dormers, while No 2 has a bipartite box dormer. No 7 has a basement, which is a later alteration.

The west elevation includes a single-storey garage with a shouldered scroll-flanked wallhead stack. The east elevation has a central wallhead stack. The south (rear) elevation is three storeys high and features a two-storey flat-roofed projection with cast-iron railings, as well as various single and dormer windows.

The houses have four-pane timber sash and case windows, with smaller sashed windows on the upper floors. The slate roof has lead flashings, and there are two wallhead stacks as mentioned earlier, along with coped mutual stacks and moulded gutterheads.

The interior was not seen in 1992. There is a low rubble boundary wall at the front with saddleback coping and cast-iron gates leading to Nos 2 and 5.