Haymarket Railway Station, Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh

Haymarket Railway Station, located on Haymarket Terrace in Edinburgh, was designed by engineer John Miller and opened in 1842. This Italianate building features a symmetrical, two-storey, seven-bay station office and entrance block made of ashlar sandstone with polished dressings and long and short quoins. It has a dentilled eaves cornice with a blocking course, and the entrance is marked by two-leaf panelled doors with two-pane fanlights.

The principal elevation showcases a tetrastyle Tuscan portico that spans three bays at the center, complete with an entablature featuring a dentilled cornice and blocking course. Behind the portico are four closely spaced windows and a door on the far left. The flanking bays have consoled cornices, with a door on the right and a built-up window on the left. The outer bays are advanced, each containing a door and a consoled cornice at the ground level. All first-floor windows have bracketed cills and consoled cornices, and a clock is positioned above the cornice at the center, set in a round-headed moulded ashlar frame that is slightly splayed at the base, made by James Ritchie and Son.

The side elevations are two bays wide and constructed of stugged sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring a dentilled cornice and blocking course, although they have been much altered. The rear elevation is three-storey and six-bay, with wallhead stacks and modern additions, detailed similarly to the side elevations but without a cornice, and includes a gablehead dormer to the right.

Modern stairs lead down to the platforms at a lower level. The building has timber sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing, and a shallow piend roof behind the blocking course covered with grey slates. Corniced wallhead stacks and original pierced octagonal cans are also present.

Inside, the ground floor has been gutted for modern ticket booths, a shop, and offices, while the boardroom survives at the center of the first floor. This room features a monumental polished pink granite Egyptian chimneypiece flanked by a pair of squat obelisks beside a simple mantelpiece. A single window cornice supported on consoles, with acroteria, fills the northeast wall, and there is a northwest door with a massive surround and cornice supported on consoles. The heavily moulded dentilled cornice and ceiling rose both display anthemion and palmette decoration. Most of the first and upper floors have been left derelict since 1992.

The exterior includes ashlar steps descending to the platform level on the north side, with decorative cast-iron railings at the center and a cast-iron lamp standard at the upper ground level. Gates have been removed.