165 Broughton Road, Edinburgh

165 Broughton Road in Edinburgh is a single-storey office building designed in 1893 by John Cooper, the City Engineer. It features a baronial style with a symmetrical layout, including two-storey central and terminal pavilions. The exterior is made of squared and snecked cream sandstone, accented with red polished ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a base course, segmental-arched windows at the ground floor, a cornice above the ground floor, crowstepped gables, and bartizans topped with pepperpot roofs on the outer pavilion blocks.

The southeast elevation, which serves as the entrance, showcases a central pavilion with a depressed-arched carriage entrance flanked by spurs and decorative iron gates. Above, there is a corbelled and corniced bipartite window at the first floor, along with a machicolated corbel supporting a pedimented Renaissance-style dormer window. The roof features a French pavilion design with alternating bands of fishscale, diamond, and standard slates, complemented by scalloped flashings and wrought-iron brattishing.

The outer pavilions are gabled on the street and outer sides (northeast and southwest elevations) and piended at the rear (northwest). The street-facing side has a four-bay design, while the sides have a three-bay layout, with two windows at the first floor. Each corner features a bartizan, and the building consists of 10- and 11-bay ranges. Machicolated corbels are present above crowstep-gabled windows in the attic on either side of the central pavilion, with pedimented dormers breaking the eaves at the centre of the ranges. There is a later low flat-roofed addition attached to the northeast.

The northwest elevation includes a six-bay pitched roof wing with a crowstepped gable projecting to the outer left. The building is fitted with sash and case windows, featuring small-pane glazing in the upper sashes. The roof is covered with grey slate and has corbelled and coped gablehead stacks, terracotta ridging, and beak skewputts. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1993.