37-39 Newhaven Main Street, Newhaven, Edinburgh

37-39 Newhaven Main Street is a house built around 1840, consisting of two storeys and a basement, with a three-bay rectangular plan. It is part of a terrace and features polished yellow sandstone, with the ground floor rendered and painted. The first floor has some plastic repairs, while the east elevation is harled, and the south side is made of random rubble. The building has a projecting base and string course, a continuous blocking course, and projecting cills for the first and second floor windows. The rear windows have long and short surrounds, projecting cills, and stugged voussoirs forming a segmental arch at the ground level.

On the north elevation, which is the entrance side, there is a recessed two-leaf replacement door to the right of the centre, with plate glass inserts on both sides. The centre and outer left bays contain single windows, and the first floor has regular fenestration. The basement is accessed via exterior stairs from the street and has a single window in the central bay, with an entrance in the outer right bay.

The south elevation, or rear, features a bipartite window set within a segmental arch in the central bay at ground level, with single windows in the first floor bays to the left and right. The entrance elevation has replacement windows at ground level, while the first floor has a two-pane timber sash and case window in the outer left bay, and 12-pane timber sash and case windows in the centre and outer right bays, as well as in both bays on the first floor at the rear. There are also 12-pane replacement casements in a segmental opening. The roof is covered with grey slate in diminishing courses, featuring stone skews and a rendered gablehead stack on the east side with a projecting cornice and circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1996. The property includes iron railings and boundary walls, with a coped bull-faced rubble wall to the north and a bare rubble wall to the east. The original iron railings feature fleur-de-lys detailing, and there are stone stairs leading to the basement. A random rubble wall runs along the east boundary at the rear.