Shrub Mount, Portobello High Street, Edinburgh

Early 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan house with mid 19th century single storey former museum adjoining to rear. Harled and whitewashed with raised painted margins.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; ground floor obscured by 20th century shop fronts; windows to centre and left bays of 1st floor, late 19th century canted window to right of 1st floor.

SE ELEVATION: doorway to former museum enclosed in adjoining close to late 19th century tenement, entered through boarded timber door to left of tenement ground floor; recessed porch supported on 2 Tuscan columns flanked left and right by pilasters, flush-panelled timber door (re-sited off-centre); evidence of single window to left of porch, remainder of elevation obscured by adjoining building.

NE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; bowed bay to centre, (partly brick construction), window to centre and right, timber door to left; flat timber door with letterbox fanlight and small square window to flanking bay to left, recessed doorway to flanking bay to right; single storey block adjoining to outer right.

NW ELEVATION: obscured by adjoining building; window off-centre to right of 1st floor of High Street block.

Modern pivot and plate glass windows with top hoppers. Grey slate part piended roofs with lead ridges. Coped harled wallhead stack with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: ground floor much altered; stone stair with timber handrail and iron balusters; timber panelled doors; reeded architraves; original plain cornices to coombed ceilings at 1st floor; museum interior not seen 1999.