47 Figgate Lane, Edinburgh

47 Figgate Lane is a Tudor-Gothic house built in 1863, with later additions and alterations. It is a two-storey, five-bay structure made of sandstone, featuring polished ashlar sandstone dressings. The porch is finished in polished and stugged ashlar. The building includes red brick corbelled and crenellated elements, and incorporates carved stones such as a clustered colonnette with bell capitals, a section of a traceried arch head, a foliate finial, a shield panel, barley twist jambs, and carved masks.

On the northeast elevation, which faces the promenade, there is a later square-plan two-storey porch with roll-moulded arrises on the penultimate bay to the right. The porch has a roll-moulded doorway that is stepped to the centre, featuring a carved ashlar tablet inscribed with "WC, 1895". The boarded door has a plate glass fanlight above it, with a window on the first floor. There are windows on each floor of the return elevations and in the outer right bay. The first floor of the bays to the left of the porch has pedimented windows that break the eaves, topped with sandstone finials, including a thistle on the outer left and trefoils. Two windows are located at the ground level between the bays.

The northwest elevation, facing Pipe Street, features octagonal crenellated towers at the corners and is regularly disposed with four bays, each having a window on every floor.

The southwest elevation is irregularly arranged, with a round-arched, border-glazed etched and coloured stair window on the outer right. There are blinded windows on each floor of the left bay, and a door at ground level with a window above it in the central bay.

The building has modern 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a complex piend and platformed grey slate roof. Large cast-iron column lamps flank the entrance.

Inside, there is a stone spiral stair on the side, horseshoe and round-arched fire grates, the latter set in a keystoned chimneypiece, and a bolection moulded chimneypiece. The interior is in poor condition.

The property is enclosed by gatepiers and boundary walls made of coped sandstone rubble, with crenellated gatepiers.