47 Figgate Lane, Edinburgh

1863, with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 5 bay Tudor-Gothic house linked to earlier Tower (to E) and modern amusement arcade (to NE). Sandstone with polished ashlar sandstone dressings; polished ashlar and stugged ashlar to porch. Red brick corbelled and crenellated. Carved stones incorporated including clustered colonnette with bell capitals, section of traceried arch head, foliate finial, shield panel, barley trist jambs, carved masks.

NE (Promenade) elevation: later square-plan 2-storey porch with roll moulded arrises to penultimate bay to right, with roll-moulded doorway stepped to centre with carved ashlar tablet: WC, 1895; boarded door with plate glass fanlight and window at 1st floor above. Windows to each floor of return elevations. Windows to each floor of bay to outer right. Pedimented windows to 1st floor of bays to left of porch breaking eaves; sandstone finials (thistle to outer left and trefoils); 2 windows at ground between bays.

NW (Pipe Street) elevation: octagonal crenellated towers to angles. 4-bay regularly disposed; window to each floor of each bay.

SW elevation: irregularly disposed. Round-arched, border-glazed etched and coloured stairwindow to outer right; blinded windows to each floor of bay to left; door at ground and window at 1st floor in bay to centre.

Modern 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Complex piend and platformed grey slate roof. Large cast-iron column lamps flanking entrance.

Interior: stone spiral stair to side. Horseshoe and round-arched fire grates, latter in keystoned chimneypiece. Bolection moulded chimneypiece. In poor condition.

Gatepiers and boundary walls: coped sandstone rubble; crenellated gatepiers.