Wardie Hotel, 102 Lower Granton Road, Edinburgh

The Wardie Hotel, located at 102 Lower Granton Road in Edinburgh, was built in 1881 and features a reworking and extension of earlier structures. This two-storey, six-bay hotel showcases Jacobean detailing and includes an attic storey. It is constructed from squared and snecked pale sandstone with polished dressings, and the central three bays are finished in ashlar with a cornice and blocking course. The windows are designed with stone mullions and transoms.

On the principal elevation facing north, the outer bays are advanced and feature two-storey balustraded canted windows with curvilinear gables topped by ornate ball finials. The left side has four-light windows, while the right has three-light windows, with corniced windows in the gableheads—bipartite on the left and single on the right. The entrance is located in the less advanced second bay from the left, featuring a timber panelled door, a plate glass fanlight, and a shoulder-arched door frame, with a window above that has a horizontal stone mullion. The three central bays to the right include a Doric pillared loggia, which has been filled in and now contains a door to the bar on the left. Above, there are three windows, with the outer two being single and the inner one double, along with tall dormers that have finialled curvilinear gableheads. There is also a later single-storey extension to the west.

The east and west elevations are made of coursed sandstone rubble, and there is a metal fire escape leading to the later extension on the roof to the west. The hotel is topped with grey slate roofs and features ornamental wrought-iron cresting along the ridge, as well as coped stone stacks with polished quoins and octagonal cans.

Additionally, the yard wall and gatepiers are constructed from coursed rubble, with a stone-coped wall that curves up to meet the gatepier on the left. The gatepiers are made of ashlar and topped with ball finials on conical caps.