Former Station, Granton Gasworks, Edinburgh

This is a two-storey, seven-bay former railway station and office block, built between 1898 and 1904 as part of the Granton Gasworks in Edinburgh. The building exhibits a plain Edwardian classical style with Baroque detailing, constructed primarily of red brick with contrasting yellow brick and ashlar sandstone dressings. The design features bays divided by prominent yellow brick pilasters, topped with fluted ashlar capitals and red brick pedestals with ashlar coping. A red brick entablature runs above, complemented by an ashlar architrave and eaves cornice.

The principal west elevation presents a symmetrical facade. A later 20th-century entrance, accessed by concrete steps, is centrally positioned. A round arched window sits above, formerly open beneath a stone segmental arch that once supported a footbridge. Above this is a decorative Baroque pediment, which incorporates a circular clock face within a moulded ashlar surround, and is finished with a ball finial. Flanking bays contain six-light stone mullion and transom windows to the upper floor. Decorative shields, salvaged from demolished buildings on the site, display the coats of arms of Edinburgh and Leith, representing the merged gas corporations.

The south and north elevations are similar, in reverse layout. The bays originally had ground-floor openings to allow trains to pass through, but these have been infilled with rendered brick and later 20th-century windows and doors. A steel staircase leads to a later 20th-century fire escape door inserted into the north elevation's upper storey. The east elevation is built into a sandstone rubble boundary wall, with ground floor windows largely blocked and replaced with smaller inserted windows. An echo of the principal elevation’s pediment is reflected in a wallhead chimney.

The interior includes a wide stone staircase descending to the ground floor and a narrower, curved stone staircase to the north, which previously connected the railway line to the gasworks site via a first-floor footbridge.

The original island railway platform runs north/south along the building's sides, featuring engineering brick sides and projecting concrete kerb blocks, now surfaced with asphalt. Grey slate covers the piended roof, topped by a single red brick wallhead stack with stone dressings and a curved base reminiscent of the Baroque pediment.