Milton Road East Lodge, Easter Duddingston Lodge, Milton Road East, Edinburgh

This is a lodge house, likely designed by W Hamilton Beattie around 1890. It is situated to the west of number 47 Milton Road East, originally Milton Road East Lodge House, and set back behind a boundary wall near a pedestrian and vehicular entrance. A Scaliger railing is positioned to the east of the vehicle entrance.

The lodge house is a single-storey building with an attic, comprising three bays. It is constructed of squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings to the front, a rendered base course, and sandstone rubble to the rear elevation. A modern harled addition has been made to the rear. The boundary wall is of squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar coping; the original ashlar gatepiers to the vehicular entrance have been rendered with cement. A lower wall with pink polished granite coping supports the Scaliger railing. The lodge features a base course, cill course, and long and short flush quoins.

The south (Milton Road East) elevation has a timber porch with coloured glass and a bay window to the right. A boarded door is centrally placed, with a window to the right. A gabled bay to the left features a tripartite window at ground level, with a decorative bracketed timber oriel window in the gablehead, pierced barge-boarding and decorative finial.

The east elevation has a bracketed ashlar window surround to a tripartite window which breaks the eaves, with a curvilinear gable and ball finial, and a round plaque with a monogram in the gablehead. The corners are chamfered and corbelled to square at eaves. A modern addition sits slightly recessed to the right. A cast-iron frame forms a covered walkway connecting the pedestrian entrance to the lodge and is supported by decorative posts.

The north elevation features another bracketed timber oriel window to a gabled bay on the right.

Original eight-pane timber sash and case windows are present throughout. The roof is red tiled and piended, with a bell-cast section to the south elevation, terracotta ridge tiles and a bowed dormer linked to the ridge on the east; a swept dormer has been inserted into the north.

The interior was not inspected in 1995.

The property includes ornamental cast-iron pedestrian and vehicular gates. The vehicular gates are flanked by square-plan banded ashlar gatepiers. A bronze plaque on the coping of the boundary wall reads: "The Scaliger Railing "Verona" 1380. This exact copy was made at Portobello, Midlothian, 1890, by James Ross, Blacksmith, along with David Greig, his Assistant in the work." The railings are a fine example of wrought-iron clairvoyee railings with an Italian quatrefoil design.