Temple Hall Hotel, 77 Promenade, Joppa, Edinburgh

The Temple Hall Hotel is a large villa dating from circa 1869, designed by James C Walker, with a detached hall to the rear. It is a two-storey building with an attic, originally six bays, but with a later single-storey, two-bay addition to the southeast. The style is irregular Rogue Baronial, featuring ashlar red sandstone construction, with some areas exhibiting tool marks now obscured by weathering.

The northeast elevation, facing the Promenade, is dominated by a three-stage entrance tower, with chamfered angles at the top stage. This tower is topped by a round-arched, pedimented doorpiece flanked by columns, leading to a panelled door and an inner vestibule door. Above the inner door is a semicircular fanlight of plate glass. A window is located at the second stage of the tower, and another, round-arched with a balustraded balcony, at the third stage. Further windows are found at the chamfered angles and on the returns to the northwest, with a rectangular tablet on the first floor of the central bay. The bays flanking to the right have windows on each floor. To the outer right is an advanced, single-storey addition with a canted window, kneelers, and a gable finial. A canted, two-storey window with a swept lead roof is incorporated into the gabled bay to the left of centre, again with kneelers, finials, and skew putts, plus a small round-arched window in the gablehead. Later additions include a single-storey, flat-roofed section to the outer left, and a harled blank addition to the extreme left.

The southwest (rear) elevation is five bays, featuring a round-arched, border-glazed stair window with engraved and coloured glass in the centre. There is a single-storey addition to the outer left, advanced bays to the outer right, and a blank end bay. A single-storey lean-to addition is also present.

The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass to the northeast elevation and four-pane glazing to the southwest. A piended dormer with a round-arched window is located in the bay to the left. The roof is grey slate, with fish-scale slates to the centre tower and a cast-iron finial. Later additions to the left have flat roofs, while coped gablehead stacks are located on the northwest elevation of the two-storey and single-storey blocks. Further coped gablehead stacks are present at the rear, to the two bays on the outer right.

Interiors retain original plasterwork, most notably in the ground and first-floor rooms to the left of centre, and original shutters. A barleysugar cast-iron balustrade graces the staircase, and a white marble chimneypiece with later glazed tiles is found in the former drawing room.

The detached hall is single-storey and rectangular with a gable to the northeast, featuring kneelers, a finial and a round-arched window with some stained glass. A porch is located on the southwest side. The hall is constructed of squared and snecked sandstone to the north and west elevations, rubble to the southeast and southwest, and has a grey slate roof with skylights. A sandstone coped stack with an octagonal can sits atop the building. The interior of the hall features timber panelled dados and a carved timber chimneypiece.

Boundary walls of squared and snecked sandstone with moulded coping are present along the Promenade, and incorporate decorative cast-iron railings and a gate. A taller rubble wall with rounded coping defines the rear boundary.