102 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh

Leadbetter and Fairley, 1899-1902. Usher Institute of Public Health, now converted for residential use (2015), in Renaissance palazzo style with Beaux Arts detailing. 3-storey; recessed central block with pavilion wings. Base course; cill courses at 1st and 2nd floors; deep bracketted eaves cornice; banded ground floor; keystoned segmental-arched windows to ground floor of pavilions; lugged architraved surrounds to 2nd floor windows.

The Warrender Park Road elevation to the north is 6 bays, with the central block recessed. Advanced central doorcase with banded Ionic columns, entablature and 3 heraldic shields set in frieze; architraved and lugged splayed doorway with keystone; original bell-pull; modern tripartite door; advanced single windows in 2 bays above; semi-circular pediment breaking eaves over heraldic carving; stone obelisk finial; single windows in 2 bays flanking to left and right; balustraded parapet above eaves. Pavilion wing to outer left; 4-bay at ground with central windows advanced; giant Ionic pilasters flanking central 3 bays at 1st and 2nd floors; Gibbsian windows at 2nd floor; broken pediment above; single windows in bays to outer left and right. Pavilion wing to outer right; 4-bay at ground floor with central windows advanced; giant Ionic pilasters flanking 2 round-arched keystoned windows with fanlight glazing patterns at 1st floor and 3 Gibbsian windows at 2nd floor; broken pediment above; small single windows in bays to outer left and right.

The east elevation to Spottiswoode Street has 3 segmental-arched and keystoned windows at ground; 5 single windows at 1st and 2nd floors; those in 2nd and 4th bays at 3rd floor taller and segmental-arched with Gibbsian surrounds. The west elevation has tripartite and small single windows at ground; oeil-de-beouf windows flanking 2 round-arched keystoned windows with fanlight glazing patterns at 1st floor. 3 segmental-arched Gibbsian windows at 2nd floor.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows with 2-pane lower sashes. Red pantiled roof; rainwater goods, including hoppers.

The interior was seen in 2015. The entrance hall has terrazzo tiling to the floor, is lined with oak timber panelling with 6-panel timber doors and timber Ionic pilasters at the corners. There is also a dentilled cornice. The stairway is lined with porcelain tiles and its windows have some decorative coloured glass. The majority of the remainder of the building has been converted into student accommodation.

Low coped boundary wall with replacement railings to streets; corniced ashlar gatepiers with quadrant walls to W.