The Lodge, Eastern Cemetery, 11 Drum Terrace, Edinburgh

The Lodge is a circa 1883 single-storey and attic cemetery lodge-house, constructed on an L-plan. It is located at 11 Drum Terrace, Edinburgh, within the Eastern Cemetery. The building is constructed of bull-faced, squared, and snecked sandstone walls with ashlar dressings, some of which are bull-faced. Stop-chamfered arrises are present on the ground floor windows.

The South (entrance) elevation features a bipartite window at ground floor to the outer left. Above this is a stone-gabled dormer with a timber mullioned jerkin-headed bipartite window that breaks the eaves. A glazed timber entrance porch with an ashlar base course and a mono-pitch roof is situated in the re-entrant angle, forming an advanced wing to the right. This wing has a jettied first floor, with corbelled and bracketed corners supporting a four-light window with mullions and transoms at ground floor. Above this is a tripartite window with timber mullions and transoms, and a window box at the cill, supported by decorative brackets.

The East (cemetery) elevation has four bays, with a gabled section in the third and fourth bays. It includes a narrow transomed window at bay one, a door at bay three, and a bipartite window with a timber transom above. A bipartite window is located at ground floor in bay four, with an offset window above, centred on the gable, featuring a timber surround and a bracketted roof.

The windows are plate glass timber sash and case windows with fixed lights above the transoms. A four-pane casement window is located at the first floor centre of the East gable. The roof is covered in grey slate, with jerkin-headed gable apexes and concealed flashings. Plain barge boards are present on the gables, along with exposed rafter ends at the eaves and red terracotta ridges with decorative finials. A slate-hung piend-roofed dormer is located in the second bay with a bipartite window. A stone dormer, breaking the eaves with a catslide roof, is situated to the left of the East gable. A slate-hung cat-slide dormer is centrally located on the North pitch, with a metal roof to an extension. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes are present. A single-flue coped stack is centrally located on the North ridge, while a three-flue wallhead stack with black circular cans is situated on the North elevation. A matching stack to the left of the East elevation has been truncated to the shoulders.

Ornate cast-iron railings run along symmetrically disposed ashlar quadrant walls flanking the cemetery gate-piers. The square gate-piers have bases that correspond with the wall, with horizontal channels to the inset rounded angles, a string course, frieze, and dentilled cornice with pediments forming the caps. They also have octagonal pedestals and ball finials, with carved floreate decoration. Highly ornate two-leaf cast-iron cemetery entrance gates are present, alongside an additional pedestrian gate for the lodge to the left.