2 Woodhall Road, Edinburgh

1815, with later alterations circa 1880, and by WJ Walker Todd, 1910. 3-bay, 2-storey and basement to Bridge Road (single storey to Woodhall Road), square-plan, pavilion-roofed former school built on steeply sloping site. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Bandcourses between first and ground floors, and ground floor and basement. Droved long and short quoins. Segmental-arched window to NE, NW and SE; those to NE and NW with moulded architraves. Crenellated centrepiece with quatrefoils and 2-leaf timber panelled door with small-pane fanlight in round-arched recessed opening to Woodhall road (outer crenellations are chimney stacks). Later bargeboarded, gabled porch to NE with bracketed eaves and 2-leaf timber panelled door in NW return; tall, shouldered wall-head stack above. Regular fenestration to SW.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows to NE and NW; plate glass to SE; some original lying-pane glazing to SW. Corniced stacks, clay cans. Graded grey slate roof.

Public steps from Woodhall Road to Bridge Street with plain cast-iron railings. Coped random rubble retaining wall to Bridge Street.