5 Westmost Close, Newhaven, Edinburgh

5 Westmost Close is a mid to later 18th century, vernacular-style house that has been recast and converted by Ian Lindsay & Partners around 1970. This two-storey, four-bay rectangular-plan building is part of a terrace and features a harled and limewashed exterior with raised and painted cement surrounds around the openings. There are exterior stairs with timber railings leading to the first floor.

On the west elevation, there are two timber boarded doors at ground level set in a stair recess, which was originally a separate property, along with a storage door beneath the stairs. The first floor has two timber boarded doors in the central bay, with the left door blocked and the right door leading to No 5. There are single windows on both floors in the outer left and right bays.

The east elevation, facing the burial ground, also has single windows in the outer left and right bays on both floors. The windows on both elevations are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is machine-made red pantiled with a grey slate easing course and has precast concrete skews. There is a harled mutual ridge stack to the north and a harled apex stack to the south, with precast concrete copes and circular cans on both.