124 Marchmont Road And 2, 4 Thirlestane Road, Edinburgh

This building, located at 124 Marchmont Road and 2, 4 Thirlestane Road in Edinburgh, dates from around 1885 and is designed in the style of a 17th-century Scottish tenement. It stands four storeys tall and features a corner tower. The exterior is made of squared and snecked sandstone, accented with polished ashlar dressings. Notable architectural details include a base course, cornices above the ground and second floors, a string course above the first floor, chamfered reveals, roll-moulded doorways, deep-set panelled doors, and plate glass sash and case fanlights.

On the Marchmont Road elevation, the building has three bays. The first bay contains a doorway flanked by a single window, with additional single windows above. The second bay has single windows, while the first and second bays are connected above the eaves by a crowstepped gable, which features a square blank tablet set in the gablehead. A full-height canted window is located in the outer right bay, corbelled to a square at the crowstepped gable, with a tower adjoining to the outer left.

The corner tower is a four-stage circular section with three single windows in each section, a cornice at the third floor, and a conical roof topped with a decorative cast-iron finial. On the Thirlestane Road elevation, there are also three bays. The third bay features a doorway flanked by a single window, with single windows above. The second bay has a doorway and single windows above. The second and third bays are linked above the eaves by a crowstepped gable, which has a bracketed and pedimented frame for a datestone set in the gablehead. A full-height canted window is in the outer left bay, corbelled to a square at the crowstepped gable, with window aprons formed by the dressings. The tower adjoins to the outer right. The building has plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, corniced gablehead stacks, moulded cans, scrolled skewputts, and two square blank tablets at the first floor on the south side and one on the east side.

The interiors were not seen in 1991, and there is a low boundary wall along the streets.