Marchmont Road School, Marchmont Road, Edinburgh

Marchmont Road School, located on Marchmont Road in Edinburgh, was designed by Robert Wilson in 1882 and is an example of School Board Gothic architecture. The building is two stories high with a basement, situated on sloping ground to the north. It features snecked and stugged ashlar stonework with polished ashlar dressings, a base course set-off, and a string course at the cill level on both the ground and first floors. The layout is a T-plan corner block with a bellcote on the south gable and splayed wings arranged in a V-plan behind, all topped with steeply pitched slate roofs. Notably, all ventilators are missing.

On the southeast elevation, the gable has buttressed angles and pointed arch tripartite windows on both floors. The first-floor windows are stilted and have nook-shafts, with a figurative Education roundel positioned above them at the center. The gabled bellcote rests on a corbel table, although the bell itself is missing.

The west elevation features bipartite pointed arch windows at the ground and first floor returns of the bellcote gable, which is recessed to the outer right. The arms of the T gable end are visible, with three windows on both the ground and first floors. The first-floor windows are stepped within lancet panels and adorned with quatrefoil roundels, all with hoodmoulds. Above the center light, there are three arrow slits and a finial at the apex. The west wing, in a V-plan, is set at an oblique angle with an advanced gable to the outer left, containing three triangular basement windows. The ground and first floors have tripartite pointed arch windows, with the first-floor windows stepped and featuring nook-shafts, alongside arrow slits above. To the right, a three-bay section includes a central doorway within an advanced gabled and buttressed panel, featuring a stilted pointed arch doorway with nook-shafts. There are two bipartite windows flanking the ground floor, with similar bipartites repeated on the first floor, those at the center set in lancet panels with roundels, breaking the eaves in a gabled dormer head.

The east elevation is nearly identical to the west, except the gable on the V-plan section has rectangular bipartite floor windows. The gabled entrance is located in the three flanking bays to the right rather than the center, with four basement windows to the left.

On the north elevation, the raised basement is arcaded to create an additional play shelter area, accommodating the slope. There are two asymmetrically disposed windows on both the ground and first floors, along with a central shouldered wallhead stack on a corbel table. The windows are six-pane sash and case, and the roof is finished with grey slates and ashlar coped skews.