Portobello Cemetery, 200 Milton Road East, Edinburgh

Robert Paterson, 1876. 2-storey with single storey sections, complex T-plan, jerkin-headed lodge house with decorative barge-boarding, porch to re-entrant angle to NW. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble. Base course.

NW (MILTON ROAD EAST) ELEVATION: advanced 2-storey, single bay. Window at ground. Timber oriel at 1st floor on bold timber brackets with paterae to apron.

SW ELEVATION: 3-bay. Gabled porch to centre, modern flush door with Tudor-arched plate glass fanlight above. Bay to left blank except carved shield plaque with : "Portobello Cemetery opened 1877- Thomas Wood Provost" at 1st floor level. Bay to right advanced; single storey with piend-roofed canted window.

SE ELEVATION: 2-bay; gabled window in bay to left. Bay to right advanced with tripartite window and bowed, conically-roofed small dormer behind attic of 2-storey arm.

Timber-mullioned sash and case windows, each section with 3-panes (breaking eaves to NE elevation). Grey slate roof with jerkin-head to NE, in bay to right, SW elevation, and bay to right SE elevation. Timber barge-boarding, and ornate timber eaves. Bull-faced ashlar and coped stack in bay to right, to NW elevation (inner core of building), and as wallhead to NW elevation. Terracotta roof tiles and finials.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATES, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: bull-faced ashlar with coping; serpentine base wall to entrance with 4 tall polygonal gatepiers with gablet detail to sawtooth conical ashlar caps and large ball finials. Cast-iron railings and fine gates, pedestrian to flanking opening and vehicular to centre.

GRAVEYARD: variety of gravestones and memorials, including memorial to Dr Balfour by John S Rhind, 1907; granite obelisk and bronze relief portrait.

PAVILION SHELTER: timber-boarded waiting room with chevron boarding above cill level, small-pane windows, fretted timber pelmet to terracotta-tiled roof and timber overhanging eaves.