Cottage, Northern Lighthouse And Buoy Depot, 20 West Harbour Road, Granton, Edinburgh

This is a single-storey, symmetrical, three-bay cottage built in the later 19th century as part of the adjacent lighthouse yard complex at 20 West Harbour Road, Granton, Edinburgh. The cottage is constructed of painted ashlar, which was yellow as of 1997, and features brick outbuildings. It has a painted stone base course and stone sills for the windows.

On the north elevation, there is a central entrance that includes a rectangular fanlight above a four-panel timber door, which was originally a two-leaf door but has been modified to a single leaf. This entrance is flanked by windows. The south elevation has three windows, with the central one having been a rear entrance at one time. There are outbuildings that adjoin at right angles to the right side. The east elevation connects to a single-storey warehouse, while the west elevation is blank.

At the rear, there are outbuildings consisting of a two-bay painted brick lean-to section that is built at right angles along the side of the adjacent warehouse. This section features three boarded timber doors of varying sizes, one of which is partially glazed, and a single window located between the first and second doors and to the far right. There is a coped skewputt to the south where it connects to the outbuildings at 22 West Harbour Road. A modified brick wall with concrete coping encloses the square backyard of the cottage.

The cottage mainly has four and eight-pane timber sash and case windows, and both the cottage and the storage block have grey slate piended roofs. There are four polychromatic coped brick wallhead stacks, with two on each side of the cottage; those on the east side have been rendered and feature round cans. The interior was not inspected in 1997.