Seacot House, 7, 8, 9 Seacot, Leith, Edinburgh

Seacot House, built around 1800, is a two-storey, three-bay classical house with a basement and a single-storey pavilion. The front is finished in droved ashlar sandstone, while the sides and rear are squared and snecked, with a harled addition. It features a base course, an impost course at the ground floor, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course with a raised tablet at the centre.

On the northwest elevation, which is the principal facade, there are pilastered quoins. A modern replacement tetrastyle ashlar porch with an entablature and a raised tablet at the centre leads to a panelled door flanked by narrow windows in the advanced centre bay. The flanking bays at ground floor have round-arched recesses with round-arched windows, voussoirs, and blind-balustraded aprons, along with basement windows. The first floor has small 6-pane architraved windows in each bay, and there is a panelled tablet above the centre bay. To the outer left, there is a single-storey pavilion with a cill course to a round-arched window.

The southeast elevation features a stair window at the centre with a pair of small windows below, along with windows at ground and first floors in the outer bays. The pavilion projects to the right, abutting modern two-storey flats.

The southwest elevation has a blank gablehead, while the northeast elevation includes a three-bay pavilion with a basement on exposed ground and a modern forestair at the centre. There are windows in the flanking bays and a blank gablehead to the two-storey flats behind, as well as to the first floor of the main block.

The house predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows on the ground floor and 6-pane timber sash and case windows above. The roofs are covered in grey slate, with the pavilion having a half-piended roof. There are ashlar gablehead stacks and bowed wrought-iron window guards to the basement recess at the front.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1995.