Columcille Centre, 2 Newbattle Terrace, Morningside, Edinburgh

The Columcille Centre, located at 2 Newbattle Terrace in Morningside, Edinburgh, is a large, classical church hall designed by Hardie & Wight and completed in 1899. It features a rectangular plan with two storeys at the front, three storeys at the rear, and single-storey bays to the west, along with a five-bay extension to the east. The building is constructed of cream sandstone with an ashlar front, while the rear and sides are made of squared and snecked rubble.

The front elevation includes a central bay flanked by shallow pilasters. At the centre, there is a closed entrance porch adorned with a balustraded parapet and angle dies topped with ball finials. The entrance features a round-arched pilastered doorway with a panelled two-leaf door and a semi-circular plate glass fanlight above. A Venetian window is positioned above the entrance on the first floor, with an eaves cornice that has a raised and panelled blocking course, crowned by a carved semi-circular pediment inscribed with 'Erected 1899'. The outer bays contain bipartite windows on both the ground and first floors. To the outer right, there are single-storey bays with a corniced secondary door and a bipartite window. The taller single-storey bays of the telephone exchange to the east are made of pink sandstone and feature three round-arched windowed panels in the centre, flanked by two smaller windows.

The rear elevation is four bays wide and three storeys tall, with a projecting flat-roofed ground and first floor. The ground floor has bipartite and single windows, while the first floor features segmental-arched windows. The second floor includes round-arched windows, with three grouped tall windows breaking the eaves under a central pediment, flanked by smaller windows. The outer left side has recessed side bays with a bipartite window, and a tall, flat-roofed exchange projects from the outer right.

The windows throughout the building are timber sash and case, with fixed light windows and coloured border glazing on the rear windows and the central light of the front Venetian window. The roof is covered with slate and features a piend and platform design with lead flashings, along with a moulded eaves gutter supported by ornamental brackets at the rear.

A low rubble wall with saddleback coping lines the front of the property. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1992.