Shop And Post Office, Bakery, 152 Lower Granton Road, Edinburgh

Circa 1840. 2-storey and attic. 8-bay (grouped 3-5). Classical terrace of tenements and shop (with rear wing and industrial outbuildings). Stugged sandstone ashlar to N elevation; brick sides and rear; droved ashlar dressings, including coped gable ends and cornice. Architraved windows and doorways, parapet, piended dormers and long and short quoins to N elevation; segmental-headed windows with stone sills elsewhere.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: comprising 2 symmetrical sections. Left section: 3-bay; painted ground floor (shop); central doorway; 2-leaf storm door; fanlight: single window to 1st floor above; 3-light canted windows at ground in flanking bays; single windows above; piended dormer over each. Right section: 3-bay ground floor; 5-bay 1st floor; paired doorways to centre; panelled doors (part-glazed to right); single window above; 3-light canted windows in bays to outer left and right; 2 single windows above each canted window; piended dormer over central window and between each outer pair of windows.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay wing projects to left; slightly irregular fenestration, including central stair window to rear of shop.

E ELEVATION: architraved entrance with replacement panelled door. Small inserted window above.

W ELEVATION: single window to right of each floor; segmental-arched entrance to rear wing to right.

Mainly 12-pane timber sash and case windows, apart from canted ground floor windows which have 6 and 3-pane timber frames with some top-hung casements. Grey slate roofs (piended to rear wing). Gable stacks to E and W and mutual ridge stack. Rainwater goods largely cast-iron.

REAR OUTBUILDINGS: grouped around stone sett yard to rear (S) of terrace. Brick with stone dressings and slate and corrugated asbestos roofs; mainly segmental-arched windows with stone sills. Single storey structure with attic to piended roof adjoins main terrace at right angles to right of rear elevation; single slated piended dormer entrance to E, reached via timber steps above lean-to; slightly tapered quadrangular section brick industrial chimney to W pitch of roof; adjoining L-plan structure (single storey with attic) parallel to its shorter wing. Shorter and later chimney to coped N gable of shorter wing; lean-to in front. Main wing to E with coped gable to right of N elevation; attic window (blocked) to gable; large inserted doorway below. 20th century boarded timber/glazed structure to re-entrant angle.

GATEPIERS: pair of ashlar gatepiers droved at arrises to W of terrace; square section with corniced pyramidal caps;

INTERIORS: not inspected (1997).