4 Pier Place, Newhaven, Edinburgh

4 Pier Place in Newhaven, Edinburgh, is a Classical tenement building constructed around 1840. It is a three-storey, three-bay structure with a rectangular plan, featuring a central pediment and an inset clock. The building is made of squared and snecked rubble sandstone, with long and short droved quoins and droved surrounds around the openings. It has a continuous base course and painted ashlar projecting cills.

On the north elevation facing Pier Place, the central bay is advanced and features a pediment. The central doorway has a plate glass fanlight above it. There are paired single windows on the first and second floors, with the clock positioned in the pediment above. The outer left and right bays each have single windows on all floors. Additionally, there is a barometer, which is a half-engaged circular ashlar block located on the north elevation at the ground floor to the left. It has a tooled base, a polished column, a boarded wooden door at the center, and a decorative finial framing a 1775 panel that depicts a ship, with "SOCIETY OF FREE FISHERMEN" engraved at the base.

The south elevation, which is the rear of the building, is also three-storey and three-bay, finished in rubble with droved surrounds to the windows. There are single stair windows between the floors in the central bay, with symmetrically flanking single windows on all storeys in the outer left and right bays.

The building features 8-pane timber sash and case windows at the ground level on both the north and south elevations, as well as in the central bay on the south. The remaining bays have 2-pane timber sash and case windows on all floors. The roof is covered with grey slate, and it has stone skews, with rendered chimneys on the east and west sides that have projecting cornices and circular cans.