Fisherman's Hall, 56-58 Main Street And 12 Pier Place, Newhaven, Edinburgh

Circa 1877. 2-storey, 4-bay rectangular-plan hall with Baronial detailing forming part of terrace fronting Main Street and Pier Place. Reorientated and subdivided to accommodate new use as a club. ENTRANCE: 2-storey, 4-bay. Rendered and lined ground floor; squared and snecked yellow sandstone to 1st floor. Shouldered and tabbed polished window surrounds; stugged long and short quoins; stugged string course. REAR: squared and snecked yellow sandstone; rendered and lined at ground; polished ashlar dressings; long and short rubble quoins. Continuous base course; moulded cornice; crow-steps to central gables.

N (PIER PLACE) ELEVATION: chamfered corner to outer left, corbelled out to square at 1st floor. GROUND FLOOR LEFT; door (infilled) in bay to outer left, window (now entrance) to inner right. GROUND FLOOR RIGHT; window in bay to outer right, door (infilled) to inner left. 2 single windows to 1st floor flank armorial panel centred in gablehead above. Round-arched belfry with projecting string course and cornice centred in apex stack.

S (MAIN STREET) ELEVATION: stepped hoodmould above entrance incorporating armorial panel depicting ship; roll-moulded surround to door; recessed 2-leaf replacement door. Single openings flank entrance at 1st floor. Large windows in bays to left and right of entry at ground; single doors in outer bays; single windows aligned above. Stone pediments above first floor windows with sculpted flower finials. Stone surrounds to blind openings set in two central gables; crowstepped gableheads; scrolled skewputts.

12-pane timber sash and case windows in all bays at first floor; replacement mullioned and transomed timber windows to ground. Grey slate roof in diminishing courses; stone skews. Rendered stacks to E and W; stone coped apex stack to N with circular cans. Replacement cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.