Milton House School, 86 Canongate, Edinburgh

Robert Wilson, dated 1886. Imposing, 2-storey and basement, 11-bay symmetrical former Board School with Scots-Baronial detailing including prominent crowstepped gables and tall bellcote to centre. Situated on ground sloping to S. Squared and snecked ashlar with polished red sandstone dressings. Base course, cill courses and moulded string course returning to side elevations and rear. Projecting gabled section to centre; panel between string and cill course inscribed 'MILTON HOUSE PUBLIC SCHOOL'; stone-mullioned windows at each floor, transoms at 1st floor; above, elaborate pedimented head with date and roundel to centre depicting St Margaret of Scotland. Bellcote at apex. Flanking bays with crowstepped gablets breaking eaves. Slightly lower recessed piended outer bays to E and W elevations; segmental-arched doors in flanks. Tall ranges extend southwards with basement to slope. Rear elevation: advanced tall 3-bay gable to centre with hoodmoulding to 2nd floor windows; three small attic windows above. Flanked by pedimented dormers.

INTERIOR: central stair hall contains four large landscape panels by William Delacour, 1758, surviving from John Adam's Milton House of 1755.

JANITORS HOUSE: 2-storey and basement (to S-facing slope), roughly square plan, crow-stepped janitor's house (also by Wilson) to SE. Contrasting red and grey ashlar. S elevation with shallow oriel in shallow advanced bay to left.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATES AND GATEPIERS: stepped low boundary wall of squared and snecked rubble. Substantial retaining wall to sloping ground to S. Cast-iron railings.

Predominantly multi-pane glazing to timber sash and case windows. Graded, grey slate. Tall, corbelled and shouldered end stacks. Clay cans. Tall, octagonal-capped axial ventilators. Cast-iron rainwater goods.