283 Portobello High Street, Edinburgh

This building at 283 Portobello High Street in Edinburgh dates from the late 18th to early 19th century and has undergone later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey structure with three bays and single-storey flanking pavilions. The northeast elevation features squared sandstone, while the side elevations and rear are constructed of rubble. There is a later harled addition to the outer left of the rear elevation. The building includes a base course, cornice, and blocking course, with a coped blocking course on the pavilions.

On the northeast (principal) elevation, there are four steps leading to a central six-panelled door, which is topped by a three-pane fanlight and a window at the first floor. Each bay has windows on both floors, and there is a panelled door now located at the centre of the right pavilion.

The southwest (rear) elevation features a door on the outer right of the southeast pavilion, with a single-storey and attic addition to the outer left of the northwest pavilion. The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a grey slate piended roof with rendered and coped wallhead stacks on the northwest and southeast elevations. The rear addition has a mansard roof.

Inside, all shutters are in place and functioning, and there is a delicate cast-iron balustrade on the twisting staircase. The front room, to the left of the entrance, has a segmental-bowed rear wall with original plasterwork.

The boundary walls consist of tall rubble on the sides and rear, with low quadrant walls featuring later railings along the street.