Former Chalmers Memorial Hall, 51, 51A Lanark Road

James Jerdan, 1901. 2-storey, wide 4-bay hall over ground floor shop premises with simple Renaissance detailing on ground falling to E. White painted render; painted coursed stone at 1st floor; red sandstone cornice, skews and finials. Narrow cill course at 1st floor. Modern plate glass shop front inserted into centre of ground floor elevation. Prominent painted stone and architraved doorway to far left with large tympana, carved escutcheon dated 1899 and initialled 'D C'; small window on rounded corner to left of door. Steeply pitched, corniced and finialled gable breaking eaves above doorway, staggered pilasters from ground to cornice. Shaped gabled window breaking eaves to far right. Bell-cast and finialled lantern, lead cap and red tile cheeks.

REAR ELEVATION: full height shouldered corniced chimneystacks flanking 1st floor hall overhanging steel braced ground floor. Door to ground floor shop to left under canopy. Advanced monopitched section to far right, triparte mullioned window to upper storey, blank ground. 3 unevenly spaced windows to hall.

Six-pane casement timber windows to hall with round headed upper panes; transomed 3-pane casement timber windows to outer bays. 2-leaf panelled door to main entrance. Pitched roof; red rosemary tiles; terracotta ridge tiles; corniced rendered ridge stack to E; ashlar cyma recta corniced stack to W (party stack with Slateford House); conical clay cans to E.

INTERIOR: stone stair to E of plan leading to 1st floor landing and hall. Timber boarded dado, architraved windows; timber chimney pieces, that to E surmounted by bronze relief memorial roundel depicting David Chalmer's bust. Timber kingpost and hammerbeam roof construction. Hall linked to 53 Lanark Road (Slateford House) via doorway to NW of plan.