Braemar House And Gatepiers, 3 Whitehouse Terrace, Edinburgh

Braemar House is a two-storey villa dated 1861, built in an irregular plan with Baronial detailing. It is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings. The villa features a balustraded entrance tower.

The south elevation, which is the main front, is three bays wide, with a recessed service wing on the outer right. An advanced, three-storey entrance tower is in the second bay, featuring a roll-moulded basket-arched doorway leading to an open porch. An "ELH" monogram is above the doorway. The first floor windows have a cill course, and the third floor windows have a bracketted cill. The cornice is surmounted by a stone balustrade, and a circular turret is topped with an ogival lead roof. A full-height canted window is in a parapetted bay to the outer right, with an iron balcony on the first floor and a blind balustrade with ball finials to the parapet. Single windows are in the bay to the left, with a first-floor window breaking the eaves in a pedimented and finialled dormerhead. The recessed service wing includes a two-storey, circular tower with a bipartite window at first floor and a conical roof, and a single-storey T-plan block.

The west elevation is three bays wide, with a gabled bay to the outer right, featuring a window at first floor and a datestone reading "1861" in the gablehead. The north rear elevation has three gabled bays and a single-storey gabled bay to the service wing, with an irregular arrangement of single windows and a secondary entrance.

The villa has plate glass sash and case windows and a grey slate roof with shouldered and corniced gablehead stacks and block skewputts. The interior was not inspected in 1991.

Panelled ashlar gatepiers with deep cornices flank the entrance, accompanied by modern timber gates. High coped mutual and boundary walls enclose the property, with a pedestrian gateway set in a slop to the right of the carriage gateway on Whitehouse Terrace. A timber gabled former stable and carriage house, now used as a double garage, stands nearby, featuring an oriel window to the outer right.