East Lodge And Gateway, Royal Victoria Hospital, Craigleith Road, Edinburgh

Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, 1906. Unusual Arts and Crafts style asymmetrical lodge atop tall Tudor arched stone entrance pend to former hospital site. Rubble stone walls with smooth rounded ashlar quoins to pend and stone corbels supporting angled timber bracket supports for lodge above. Single window to left over carved stone panel. Slate hung elevations to lodge with 11 section-mullioned, multipane windows incorporating canted bay to left to street elevation. Half-rounded stone stair tower to rear with entrance under pend. Full height, riveted and boarded timber gates on tall single hinge mechanism. Timber boarded ceiling to pend and overhangs.

Predominantly 8-pane timber side hung and mullioned casement windows to upper floor. Bellcast roof with graded grey slates; off centre ridge stack; boarded timber entrance door to pend. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: simple interior floor plan and plain decorative scheme. Stone spiral stair leading to bathroom to half landing with window to front; upper floor with corridor to rear and 3 rooms spanning main window to front. 4-panel timber doors. Coiled detail window handles and brackets, some fitted cupboards circa 1950.