49 Marine Drive, Edinburgh

49 Marine Drive is a single and two-storey, L-plan Baronial building, dating to circa 1865 and designed by David Bryce. Originally stables and a coach house, it is constructed of squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, some of which are slightly contrasting. Chamfered arrises define the detailing, and sections of moulded eaves have nailhead stops.

The coach house runs north-south. A round tower adjoins the south gable end, featuring a lean-to porch to the west with a door and a small window, and a further door and window on its return to the south. Arrowslit lights are in the tower, with a jettied wallhead on a corbel course, a conical roof covered in fishscale slates, and three diminutive gabled dormers each with a flight hole opening and finials. Scalloped flashing and a finial adorn the apex. A gablehead stack and window are located to the south gable behind the tower. The west (courtyard) elevation has four bays, with the tower forming the fourth, outer right bay. A segmental carriage arch is in the outer left bay, positioned by the re-entrant angle with the single-storey stables. This is flanked by two flat-arched openings with two-leaf, part-glazed, boarded doors. Steeply gable-pedimented dormerheads break the eaves above each bay, topped with carved stone finials. The outer east elevation has two two-storey bays to the left and a single-storey bay to the right. Two small slit windows are in the bay to the outer left, with a window in the centre; both bays have gable-pedimented dormerheaded windows above. The lower bay to the outer right has an off-centre left door and a plate glass rectangular fanlight. The north gable end is masked by a later lean-to spanning the north elevation.

The stables run east-west, north of the coach house. The south courtyard elevation features two windows, with a gabled hayloft dormer above the window to the left (now blocked). Timber bracketed eaves and a finial are present. A lower, half-piended entrance block is at the gable to the west, with doors on the return to the courtyard and to the left of the west elevation (now blocked as windows). A gablehead loft window is behind this, also now blocked. A later lean-to spans the north elevation.

The windows are timber sash and case, with a 12-pane glazing pattern, some with fixed plate glass. Lower windows have grilles. The roof is covered in graded grey slates, with a louvred timber gabled ventilator on the pitch to the north. Ashlar coped skews include bracketed skewputts. Stone gablehead stacks have battered coping. Decorative cast-iron rainwater hoppers are also present. The interior was not inspected in 1997.

Boundary walls are constructed of squared and snecked rubble sandstone with saddleback coping, stepped in stages; semicircular coping is to the north-south walls, and rubble coping to the south wall. Square ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps are at the southwest corner, though one cap is missing, marking a driveway that is now blocked. The courtyard is paved with ranite setts, angled with a central drainage system.