3 Cramond Village, Cramond, Edinburgh

Circa 1780 - 90; recast and converted by Ian Lindsay & Partners 1959 - 60. Plain vernacular, L-plan tenement forming courtyard at front; converted to residential and part use as Heritage Centre at ground (circa 1981). Single and 2-storey at front; 3-storey, 6-bay at rear. Whitewashed harl; boarded timber doors; painted surrounds to openings; projecting cills; continuous eaves course; stone platforms with iron railings from garden area to upper flats at front. Later single-bay, flat-roofed addition at rear; single-storey, 4-bay whitewashed harl outbuilding to front.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION NO 1: 3-bay; stone platform to single door in central bay at 1st floor; flanking single windows; (painted surrounds). NO2: 3-bay; single door at ground in central bay aligned beneath No1; flanking single windows (painted surround to right). NO 3: 3-bay; accessed at 1st floor; single door off-set to right of centre; single windows in 2 bays to left (painted surround to window in bay to outer left).

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION NO 4: 3-bay, single storey. Single door in bay to outer left; arched rubble sandstone recess in bay to right. Single windows at ground in 2 bays to right (painted surround to window in penultimate bay to outer right).

S (REAR) ELEVATION) NO 5: 3-bay; accessed from N; single windows in all bays; projecting cills. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: single door in central bay; flanking single windows; projecting cills. E (SIDE) ELEVATION: boarded timber opening centred in apex; painted surround.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: Nos 3 and 4: 3-storey, 4-bay; Nos 1 and 2: 4-storey, 2-bay. Single door at ground in bay to outer left No 4; small square timber boarded shutters to remaining 3 windows at ground; regularly fenestrated in all bays at 1st and 2nd floors. Single storey projection at ground in bay to right No1; single timber door to left (No2). Single window at 1st floor in bay to left; regularly fenestrated at 2nd and 3rd floors in both bays.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to all elevations. Machine-made red pantile roof with grey slate easing course; raised skews; harled apex stacks to N and S Nos1 and 2 and to N No4; precast concrete copes; circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1996.

E (COURTYARD) ELEVATION OUTBUILDING: boarded timber doors in bays to left and right of centre; single square window in bay to outer right; single window in bay to outer left; painted surrounds to all. 6-pane timber casement windows. Machine-made pantile roof with grey slate easing course.