East Craigie, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh

Shell House is an earlier 19th-century L-plan farmhouse located at East Craigie, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh. The building features a symmetrical two-storey, three-bay gabled main block with a single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch at the centre of the principal (east) elevation. At the rear, there is a single-storey, single-bay wing that continues to the west as a single-storey three-bay wing. The walls are constructed of stugged sandstone with droved sandstone ashlar dressings and include a base course. A block cornice runs along the eaves, which is continuous across the gables, and the windows have projecting cills.

On the east (principal) elevation, the entrance porch projects at ground level in the central bay and features a nine-panel timber door with a plate glass fanlight on the south side, along with windows on the east and north sides. The eaves have a cornice and blocking course, and there is regular fenestration in the flanking bays and at the first floor.

The north gable has a single-storey piend-roofed wing that advances at ground level, with a blank gable rising behind it. The south gable features a single window to the left at both ground and first floors, while the west wing is recessed on the left side.

The west wing has two-storey, two-bay north and south elevations that are regularly fenestrated at both ground and first floors, with a blank west gable and a single-storey three-bay wing projecting at ground level.

The windows are 12 and 8-pane timber sash and case, and the roof is covered with graded grey slate. The building includes cast-iron rainwater goods, stugged sandstone and harled gablehead stacks that are all coped with circular cans, and overhanging ashlar skew copes.

Additionally, there is an ornamental garden building known as Shell House, which is a shell-covered brick cylinder that tapers above the door lintel to a domed roof, with shells applied to the interior walls.