50 West Port, Edinburgh

50 West Port in Edinburgh is a four-storey and basement tenement block designed by Robert Morham in 1884, featuring Scots Baronial details. The building is constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced cream sandstone with polished dressings. It has a stepped string course between the ground and first floors, and a corbelled course between the second and third floors. The windows are set in chamfered surrounds.

The advanced central bay includes stone steps leading to a two-leaf timber boarded door, which is framed by a moulded stop-chamfered surround. Above this door is a bipartite window on the third floor, topped with a segmental pediment that displays the date 1884. The gable is crowstepped and features a corniced gablehead chimney. To the right, there is a shoulder-arched former entrance to a fire station, with a four-light stone-mullioned window above it. The outer bays have bipartite windows on the first, second, and third floors, with pedimented gableheads that break the eaves. The outer left side has a stone-mullioned and transomed canted window at the ground and basement levels.

The building has small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, and is topped with grey slates and corniced stacks with circular cans.

The boundary wall features spear-headed railings on a low ashlar-coped wall, with decorative finials marking the entrance.