Edinburgh Industrial Brigade Home, 89, 91, 93, 95 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh

This is a three-storey and attic, four-bay former boys' home, designed by Frank Worthington Simon and built in 1898. It was restored in 1989 and is now a block of flats at 89, 91, 93, and 95 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed coursed sandstone with polished ashlar dressings.

The principal north elevation features two centre bays that are wider than the rest, with semi-elliptical arches at ground floor level and tripartite windows above. The outer bays are narrower, with semicircular arches at ground floor and bipartite windows on the first and second floors. The building has conical-roofed tourelles corbelled out from the splayed corners at the first floor level. A mutuled eaves cornice runs along the top of the building, and the windows are stone-mullioned and -transomed, with long and short surrounds. A wallhead stack is centrally positioned, and there’s an aedicule (a decorative architectural surround) at first floor level, with a mutuled curved pediment and finial (although capitals and base elements are currently in storage) that contains a tablet commemorating the 1989 restoration by Fountainbridge Housing Association. Bipartite windows with curved finialled dormerheads are set into the attic level. The entrance doors are timber-panelled, contained within moulded arched surrounds with consoled keyblocks bearing dates. The tourelles feature four-light stone-mullioned windows. Bracketed windows are topped with broken scrolled pediments that break the eaves, and a cornice runs across the attic level windows. Slated conical roofs are finished with finials.

The east (Thornybauk) elevation is four bays wide. It features a semicircular arch at ground floor level in the right bay and narrow, offset windows at the first and second floors. There are bipartite windows at ground, first, second, and third floors in the two left bays, which are gabled. A stair door is centrally placed, with two windows lighting the stairwell above. A mutuled cornice sits between the second and third floors in the two right bays, topped by a balustered parapet.

The west (Ponton Street) elevation is also four bays wide, with a semicircular arch at ground floor level in the left bay. Narrow, offset windows are located to the right at the first, second, and third floors. A dentilled cornice separates the second and third floors, and a wallhead chimney is positioned to the left of a balustered parapet on the right. The three right bays are gabled; an arched and rusticated opening (now filled with a window) is in the left bay, with a rusticated pilaster strip to the right at ground level. Small windows are set at the first, second, and third floors.

The windows on the principal north elevation are small-pane leaded glass, while those on the side elevations are modern timber replacements. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, originally Westmoreland slates. The building has cast-iron downpipes with decorative and dated hoppers and wallhead stacks topped with circular cans.