Queens Park Nursing Home, 2 Marchhall Road, Edinburgh

Queens Park Nursing Home is a house built around 1880, with later additions. It is a 2-storey, 3-bay structure designed in an L-shape, featuring chip-carved ornamentation. The principal elevation is made of cream sandstone polished ashlar, while the sides and rear are constructed from rubble. The building has a base course and a cornice, along with a non-traditional single-storey modern extension to the east.

On the southeast elevation, there is a pedimented gable wall with a central, full-height, 4-light canted window. Cill courses are present on both the ground and first floors, with the ground floor windows set in recessed panels that display an intricately carved floral pattern and dentils above the glazing. The central first-floor window is in a recessed, segmental-arched panel with similar floral carving and dentils, topped by a carved cross. The strip quoins rise to carved scrolls and skewputt at the dentilled eaves, and there is a decorative cast-iron finial on the roof.

The southwest elevation features a single window on the first floor above the porch. The east elevation has a 3-bay design with regular fenestration on both floors.

On the north elevation, the south side has a 2-bay layout with a recessed tripartite doorway to the right, which includes a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight. There is a square-plan porch that is open to both the south and west, supported by square-section columns with a decorative parapet. Above this, there is a single round-arched window on the first floor, and to the left, a bipartite window in a segmental-arched panel with floral carving above the glazing on the ground floor, along with another single window above. An incised design is present on both floors to the outer left. The east elevation shows the modern extension at ground level, with single windows on the outer left and right at the first floor above.

The building features modern replacement windows with hopper lower sashes, a grey slate piended roof, and shouldered, coped, and corniced wallhead stacks.