Stables, Norton House Hotel, Edinburgh

Circa 1843. Near-symmetrical U-plan stables with Tudor details now (1992) converted to restaurant use. Squared, coursed whinstone with cream sandstone dressings and margins; side and rear elevations snecked whinstone rubble. Base-course; gabled dormerheads. 2-storey main range aligned E-W with lower ranges enclosing court.

S (MAIN) ELEVATION: 3-bay main block, bays concentrated toward centre. 3 doors at ground with window to right and left of outer bays; wooden panelled doors (modern); canopy over centre door (modern); light fittings between centre and end bays (modern). Dormerheaded windows at 1st floor; lights (modern) in gablet. Lower ranges to left and right at right angles; single storey and attic. Gable to left has 2 round-headed slits at ground and segmental- headed window to loft. Original coach bays on return now glazed with French-windows. Gable to right has 2 doors at ground (now glazed to windows) and segmental- headed window to loft. Built against wall of walled garden. Modern harled addition at rear.

All windows are modern, hardwood windows, 4-pane glazing (casement); former coach arches and doors also glazed. Grey slate roof; tall corniced, wallhead, ridge and apex stacks, circular cans. Ashlar coping to skews and skewputts.