4 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh

3 Lockharton Gardens in Edinburgh is an impressive pair of semi-detached houses built in 1884 by James Gowans. These two-storey homes with an attic over a raised basement feature a rectangular plan and have central projections to the northeast and southwest. The exterior is made of squared and coursed rubble with cream sandstone dressings and droved quoins. Notable architectural details include chamfered reveals and Gowans' distinctive 'stick-style' design, which incorporates vertical ashlar and rubble banding on the aprons of the canted windows and chimney stacks, as well as pen-nib carvings on the dormer heads and paired stone brackets at the eaves. The windows are set with ashlar mullions.

The northeast (front) elevation has four bays that are mirrored about the center. It features a two-bay central piend-roofed stone porch projection with two tripartite windows at the ground floor, basement doors (which are later alterations), and narrow flanking windows below. The panelled doors have lugged architraves on the returns and are accessed by stairs with pierced ashlar balustrades and decorative railings. Each outer bay has a single window, and there is a window in each bay on the first floor that breaks the eaves with pedimented dormer heads.

The southwest (rear) elevation consists of three advanced bays flanked by narrow blank bays. The central bay features a full-height four-light canted window that breaks the eaves and has a half-piended roof. The outer bays have single windows, and the first-floor windows also break the eaves with pedimented dormer heads. There is a bipartite window at the basement on the return.

The northwest and southeast elevations each have two full-height canted bays that break the eaves and feature half-piended roofs, with carved timber apex panels on the gambrel roofs. The windows are primarily timber sash and case, with some casements, mostly consisting of 4- or 8-pane upper sashes and plate glass or 2-pane lower sashes. The roof is covered with green slate and has lead flashings, two cross-sectioned corniced stacks with decorative serrated cans, and a large rooflight on the southwest side. Ornamental cast-iron gutterheads are also present. A single-storey garage is located to the southwest.

The interiors were not seen in 1992. The property is enclosed by a low boundary wall with saddleback coping, which is heightened in places, and features square gatepiers at No 3, along with decorative cast-iron gates.