3 Cramond Village, Cramond, Edinburgh

This is a circa 1780-90 tenement building in Cramond Village, Edinburgh. It was remodeled and converted by Ian Lindsay & Partners in 1959-60, and subsequently adapted for residential use and a Heritage Centre on the ground floor around 1981. The building is of plain vernacular style, forming an L-shape that creates a courtyard at the front. It is two and three storeys high, with six bays at the rear. The exterior is whitewashed harl, featuring boarded timber doors, painted surrounds to the windows and openings, projecting cills, and a continuous eaves course. Stone platforms with iron railings provide access to the upper flats from the front garden area. A later flat-roofed addition has been built at the rear, along with a single-storey, four-bay whitewashed harl outbuilding to the front.

The East (Entrance) Elevation is divided into three sections. Number 1 features a stone platform leading to a first-floor door, flanked by single windows all with painted surrounds. Number 2 has a ground-floor door aligned directly below the first-floor door of Number 1, with flanking single windows, the one on the right having a painted surround. Number 3 has a first-floor door offset to the right of centre, flanked by single windows, the outer left one having a painted surround.

The South (Entrance) Elevation, Number 4, is single-storey and three bays. It has a door in the bay to the outer left, and an arched recess in rubble sandstone in the bay to the right. Single windows are placed on the ground floor in the two bays to the right, with the second one from the right having a painted surround. The South (Rear) Elevation, Number 5, has three bays accessible from the north side, each with a single window and projecting cills. The North (Entrance) Elevation has a central door flanked by single windows and projecting cills. The East (Side) Elevation includes a boarded timber opening in the apex, with a painted surround.

The West (Rear) Elevation is divided between numbers 3 and 4 (three-storey, four-bay) and numbers 1 and 2 (four-storey, two-bay). Number 4 has a ground-floor door in the bay to the outer left, with small square boarded shutters on the remaining three ground-floor windows. The building is regularly fenestrated in all bays at the first and second floors. A single-storey projection at ground level is located in the bay to the right of Number 1, with a single timber door to the left (Number 2). A single window is located on the first floor of the bay to the left, and the second and third floors are regularly fenestrated in both bays.

All elevations feature 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with machine-made red pantiles, with a grey slate easing course, raised skews, and harled apex stacks to the north and south of numbers 1 and 2, and to the north of number 4. Precast concrete copes and circular cans are also present. The interiors were not inspected in 1996.

The outbuilding on the East (Courtyard) Elevation has boarded timber doors in the bays to the left and right of centre, single square windows in the bay to the outer right, and a single window in the bay to the outer left, all with painted surrounds. It has 6-pane timber casement windows and a roof of machine-made pantiles with a grey slate easing course.