43 Commercial Street, Edinburgh

43 Commercial Street in Edinburgh is a single-storey classical building, originally constructed as station offices in 1846 by engineers Grainger and Miller. The structure is made of cream ashlar sandstone and features a decorative order of acanthus leaves and harebells.

The northwest elevation facing Commercial Street has eight bays, with a base course, a modillioned cornice, and a solid coped parapet. The left five bays have regular fenestration, while the fourth bay from the left contains a two-leaf panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above. To the right, there is a slightly advanced three-bay pavilion that includes a pair of square columns in antis and flanking piers, with a window in each bay.

On the northeast elevation, there is an obtusely angled three-bay entrance portico featuring a pair of columns in antis and flanking piers topped with angular vases on corniced dies. The central window is tripartite, and there is a two-leaf panelled door to the left bay, also with a rectangular six-pane fanlight above.

The building has blank single bay returns with band courses and a wallhead stack to the west. At the eastern end, a coped ashlar wall of the platform extends south, featuring pilasters on the north face and a former segmental arched opening at the center.

The rear elevation is plain ashlar with a door to the left, and a single bay of platform roof projects at an acute angle to the right, enclosed except for a single cast-iron column. The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, with two replaced by plate glass. The roof is covered with grey slates.