Jericho House, 55-55A Lothian Street, Edinburgh

Jericho House, located at 55-55A Lothian Street in Edinburgh, is a former church built in 1834 and rebuilt in 1937, with internal alterations made in 1988 to convert it into care home accommodation. This two-storey building with a basement has a rectangular plan and is situated on a corner. The southeast elevation, designed in the Perpendicular Gothic style reminiscent of James Gillespie Graham, features three bays and is constructed of ashlar on the main elevations, while the rear is made of coursed rubble with droved sandstone window margins.

The southeast elevation has a gable with a cross finial at the center, flanked by angle buttresses topped with crocketed pinnacles. It includes a Gothic two-leaf timber panelled door with timber crenellation and a Gothic fanlight above, all set within a crocketed hood-mould. Above the door is a window with perpendicular tracery. The flanking bays are crenellated, with windows also featuring perpendicular tracery and octagonal pinnacled buttresses. The openings have hoodmoulds and pointed arches with carved head label stops, and there are spear-headed cast iron railings and a gate.

The southwest elevation, facing Bristo Place, has two storeys and consists of eleven irregularly spaced bays. The windows are set in splayed, recessed surrounds. The central entrance features a two-leaf timber panelled door with a small-pane glazed fanlight in a Tudor-arched surround, while another two-leaf timber panelled door is located in the second bay from the left. There are additional doors leading to the outer right and a low door to the far side right that provides access to the basement. The building has a pitched roof behind a parapet wall.

The windows on the southwest elevation are fitted with border-glazed metal casements, while the southeast elevation has diamond pane glazing in the traceried windows. The rear features timber sash and case windows with a 16-pane glazing pattern, and the roof is covered with slate.

Inside, as seen in 2011, the later 20th-century alterations have created individual room accommodations for care home residents. There are two staircases from the 1937 conversion: one at the southeast gable entrance, which includes a trio of statues, and a T-plan staircase at the rear with plain timber panelled walls. The basement features glazed brick detailing for the pavement lights and exposed riveted cast iron I-beams that support the ground floor.