42 Main Street, Newhaven, Edinburgh

42 Main Street in Newhaven, Edinburgh, is a mid to later 18th-century tenement block that was recast and converted by Ian Lindsay & Partners around 1970. This three-storey, five-bay building is part of a terrace and features a prominent full-height conical-roofed stair tower in the central bay. The exterior is harled and limewashed, with raised and painted concrete surrounds around the openings, and there are doorways at both the front and rear leading to Fishmarket Square.

On the east elevation facing Great Michael Square, there is a timber boarded door located in the re-entrant angle to the left of the stair tower, with small single stair windows above. The fenestration is regular across all floors in the penultimate and outer bay to the left, while the re-entrant angle to the right of the tower has single windows on the first and second floors. The outer right bay is regularly fenestrated on all floors, and there is a single window on the second floor in the inner left bay.

The west elevation facing Fishmarket Square features a two-leaf timber boarded door in the penultimate bay to the left, with single windows on all floors in the outer left bay. There is a bipartite window at ground level in the outer right bay, and the remaining bays are regularly fenestrated on all floors.

On the north elevation facing Pier Place, there is a single window on the second floor in the bay to the right of the gable end. All openings have 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with machine-made red pantiles and has a grey slate easing course along with precast concrete skews. There is a harled ridge stack to the south and an apex stack to the north, which features precast concrete copes and circular cans.