2, 3, 4 Rutland Square, Edinburgh

2, 3, 4 Rutland Square is a terrace of three houses in Edinburgh, designed by John Tait around 1830-1840, with some later alterations. The building is three stories high with a basement and features eight bays that are nearly symmetrical. The basement is constructed from broached sandstone ashlar, while the upper levels are made of polished sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. The southeast elevation is built from squared and snecked rubble. There are band courses between the basement and ground floors, as well as between the ground and first floors, and a cill course at the second floor. The cornice above is finished with a coped blocking course.

On the southwest (principal) elevation, there is a segmental-arched doorway at the basement level with a timber door and a three-pane segmental-arched fanlight, located beneath the oversailing platts. The remaining bays contain windows. At the ground floor, there are deep-set timber panelled doors with four-pane rectangular fanlights at the third bay from either end (Nos 2 and 4), and a similar arrangement for a plain doorway at the left of No 4 (No 3). The upper floors have regular fenestration in all bays.

The southeast elevation features a window at the lower basement in the central bay and in a recessed bay to the outer right, along with a door with a three-pane fanlight in the intervening bay and another in the bay to the left. Above, there is a window in each central bay, with an additional window to the left at the attic level.

The northwest elevation is obscured by an adjoining building, and the northeast elevation was not visible in 2000. The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, with a two-bay timber sash and case window at the ground floor of the southeast elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate and features coped skews. There are coped, cement-rendered stacks with cylindrical cans on the southeast wallhead, at the center, and to the northwest. The building also has cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The property includes spear-headed cast-iron railings leading up to the doors, mounted on ashlar copes, and a cast-iron railing-mounted lamp standard with a glass globe at No 2.