Rock Cottage, Joppa Pans, Musselburgh Road, Edinburgh

No 1, probably 17th century with later alterations. 2-storey (now with attic) 4-bay cottage. Harled. Base course.

S (MUSSELBURGH ROAD, PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4 bays regularly disposed at 1st floor (formerly with timber 19th century architraves). Later porch to centre between 2nd and 3rd bays with boarded door. Ground floor otherwise blank except door to outer left; door to outer right removed in 1988.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: irregularly disposed bays. Windows at 1st floor breaking eaves. Modern glazed door to outer left, window at 1st floor; window to 2nd bay, blank at 1st floor; modern glazed door at ground and window at 1st floor of 3rd bay; window in 4th bay, ground, window to right at 1st floor; window at ground, 5th bay; window to each floor, outer right.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to S elevation; variety of windows to rear, 4-pane, 8-pane, 12-pane timber sash and case windows with 6-pane timber hinged window at 1st floor, bay to outer right. Grey graded slate roofs, with steeper, earlier pitch to rear and raised to cover each window at 1st floor; modern rooflights to right of S elevation, 2 to rear. Diamond-section wallhead stacks to gables with dentilled coping and circular stacks. Wallheads either side of bay to outer left, to rear with brick dentilled coping; formerly tall stacks flanking door to centre of S elevation.

INTERIOR: ground floor possibly once vaulted; stone and timber-clad stair to 1st floor; shutters in place and working; most original timber beams in place and also mud with straw bonding wall dividing attic space.

BOUNDARY WALLS: mainly rubble boundary walls to rear.

REAR GARDEN: vaults under garden to area near house. Little evidence of salt pans, except bath stone bricks; outbuildings to W.