Willow Bank, 243 Newhaven Road, Newhaven, Edinburgh

Willow Bank, located at 243 Newhaven Road in Edinburgh, dates from around 1820 and consists of a pair of two-storey, four-bay cottages that are subdivided and set on a slope. The building has a symmetrical, rectangular plan and is constructed from coursed rubble sandstone, featuring droved long and short rubble quoins, a continuous cornice, and polished and painted window surrounds on the south side. The windows have projecting cills and architraved doorpieces, while the north side has polished and droved surrounds. A later conservatory has been added to the south at ground level, and the rear basement has been converted into a separate flat.

On the south elevation, which serves as the entrance, there are architraved doorpieces in the central bays, adorned with decorative friezes and projecting cornices. The outer left bay contains a single window on the ground floor, while the outer right bay has a door formed from a window. The first floor is regularly fenestrated. The north elevation, or rear, features a three-storey, four-bay symmetrical arrangement with single openings in all bays at the basement level. The outer left and right bays have tripartite windows on the ground floor, and there are single windows on both floors in the remaining bays.

The windows are two-pane timber sash and case. The roof has been replaced with grey pantiles and features stone skews and Velux rooflights. Coped rubble apex stacks are located at the east and west ends, with circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1996.

The boundary wall along Newhaven Road is made of coped rubble, with a polished and painted pilastered pedestrian gateway to the south, featuring a projecting cornice and a replacement iron gate. To the left is a garage with a roller shutter door. The polished sandstone gatepiers to the north have curved pyramidal caps and replacement metal gates. A random rubble wall to the west marks the original entry to Willow Bank House, which has since been demolished, and features stone coping, pyramidal caps, and a timber gate.