49 Marine Drive, Edinburgh

David Bryce, circa 1865. Single and 2-storey L-plan Baronial, former stables and coach house with tower. Squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, some slightly contrasting; chamfered arrises; sections of moulded eaves band with nailhead stops.

COACH HOUSE: running N-S. Round tower adjoining S gable end, lean-to porch abutting to W with door and small window, further door and small window on return to S; arrowslit lights to tower with jettied wallhead on corbel course, conical roof with dovecot, fishscale slates and

3 diminutive gabled dormers with flight hole openings and finials, scalloped flashing and finial to apex.

Gablehead stack and window to S gable behind tower. W (courtyard) elevation 4-bay with tower as 4th, outer right bay; segmental carriage- arch to outer left bay by re-entrant angle formed with single storey stables, flanked to centre bays by 2 flat-arched openings with 2-leaf, part-glazed, boarded doors, steeply gable-pedimented dormerheads to 1st floor windows breaking eaves above each bay, with carved stone finials. Outer E elevation with 2 2-storey bays to left and single storey bay to right; 2 small slit windows to bay to outer left, window to centre, both bays with gable-pedimented dormerheaded windows above; lower bay to outer right with door off-centre left, plate glass rectangular fanlight. N gable end masked by later lean-to spanning N elevation.

STABLES: running E-W at N of coach house. 2 windows to S courtyard elevation with gabled hayloft dormer (now blocked) above window to left, with timber bracketed eaves and finial. Lower half-piended entrance block at gable to W, with doors on return to courtyard and to left of W elevation (now blocked as windows); gablehead loft window behind, now blocked. Later lean-to spanning N elevation.

12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, some fixed plate glass. Grilles to lower windows. Graded grey slates; louvred timber gabled ventilator on pitch to N. Ashlar coped skews with bracketed skewputts. Stone gablehead stacks with battered coping. Decorative cast-iron rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS: squared and snecked rubbles sandstone walls with saddleback coping, stepped in stages; semicircular coping to N-S walls, rubble coping to S wall. Square ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps to SW (1 cap missing) driveway now blocked.

COURTYARD: ranite setts to courtyard, angled surface with central drainage.