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

Fisherman's Hall, located at 56-58 Main Street and 12 Pier Place in Newhaven, Edinburgh, dates from around 1877. This two-storey, four-bay rectangular hall features Baronial detailing and is part of a terrace along Main Street and Pier Place. The building has been reoriented and subdivided for its new use as a club.

The entrance façade is two-storey and four-bay, with a rendered and lined ground floor and squared and snecked yellow sandstone on the first floor. It has shouldered and tabbed polished window surrounds, stugged long and short quoins, and a stugged string course. The rear side also features squared and snecked yellow sandstone, with a rendered and lined ground floor and polished ashlar dressings. It includes long and short rubble quoins, a continuous base course, a moulded cornice, and crow-steps on the central gables.

On the north elevation facing Pier Place, there is a chamfered corner on the outer left that is corbelled out to a square at the first floor. The ground floor on the left has an infilled door in the outer bay and a window that now serves as an entrance in the inner right. The right side has a window in the outer bay and an infilled door in the inner left, with two single windows on the first floor flanking an armorial panel centered in the gablehead above. A round-arched belfry with a projecting string course and cornice is centered in the apex stack.

The south elevation facing Main Street features a stepped hoodmould above the entrance, which incorporates an armorial panel depicting a ship. The door has a roll-moulded surround and is recessed with a two-leaf replacement door. There are single openings flanking the entrance on the first floor, large windows in the bays to the left and right of the entry on the ground floor, and single doors in the outer bays, with single windows aligned above. Stone pediments above the first-floor windows have sculpted flower finials, and there are stone surrounds to blind openings set in the two central gables, which have crowstepped gableheads and scrolled skewputts.

The first floor features 12-pane timber sash and case windows in all bays, while the ground floor has replacement mullioned and transomed timber windows. The roof is covered in grey slate in diminishing courses, with stone skews. There are rendered stacks to the east and west, and a stone-coped apex stack to the north with circular cans. The rainwater goods are replacement cast-iron. The interior was not seen in 1996.