59-61 High Street, South Queensferry

This is an early 19th-century tenement on High Street, South Queensferry. The building is three storeys and has a basement, with an eight-bay front and a rectangular plan, featuring a central bow at the rear. The principal elevation is faced with droved ashlar, while the basement is of snecked rubble with ashlar quoins, and the other elevations are of snecked rubble. Raised cills are present on the windows of the principal elevation. Basement railings, a base course, a string course at the second floor, and an eaves course are also notable features. Steps with railings lead to three main doors.

The principal (south) elevation has a projecting two-bay central section (number 60), featuring a pilastered doorway with a panelled door and narrow flanking side lights, as well as single windows at the first floor and square windows at the second floor. A central basement window is also present. To the left (number 59) is a three-bay section with a central door and fanlight, and single windows above at ground and first floors. A further three-bay section to the right (number 61) features a central door with a fanlight, a blocked window at the first floor, and timber-blocked square windows at the second floor above, alongside flanking windows at ground and first floors. Matching basement staircases with central doors and flanking windows are located on the left (number 58) and right (number 62) sides.

The west elevation includes a blocked central door with meters, and small windows at each of the first, second, and third floors. A chamfered northwest angle is present, along with a rubble-built store at the corner. The north elevation is four storeys high and features an eight-bay facade. A prominent two-bay central semicircular bow contains single windows at ground, first, and second floors, with smaller single windows at the third floor. To the left and right of the bow are three-bay sections with single windows at each floor.

The east elevation has a single window in the centre at ground, first, and second floors, plus a single window in the right-hand bay at the third floor. The windows are a mixture of small-pane timber sash and case windows and modern glazing, with modern French windows having been fitted to the left bay on the rear elevation (altered in 1989). The roof is covered in grey slate, featuring straight stone skews and rendered coped stacks at gables and flanking the centre. The interior was not inspected in 2000. Iron railings are present to the front steps and areas; rubble boundary walls mark the rear gardens.