7 Wemyss Place, High Street, Cockenzie

8 Wemyss Place, Cockenzie, is a near-symmetrical terrace of 13 houses built in 1882 in a stylised late-Gothic architectural style. The terrace comprises two-storey blocks interspersed with single-storey cottages that also have attics. The buildings are constructed from squared and snecked sandstone rubble, with dressings that are stugged, droved, and chamfered.

The north (front) elevation presents a symmetrical arrangement of cottage fronts. The three central houses (Nos. 6, 7, and 8) are distinguished by two-storey, crowstepped gabled fronts, buttressed at the ends. Each features a door and window within an advanced, crowstepped gabled porch. Flanking these are three-light mullioned and transomed windows above a cill course, with four-light windows in the same style in the gables above, incorporating hoodmoulds and projecting cills. The end houses (Nos. 1 and 13) are in a similar style, with a seven-light ground floor window and a five-light window to the first floor above a string course, also featuring a hood moulding. A blank plaque is set into the gablehead. The other houses are arranged in two groups of four and have a reversed plan with single-storey and attic layouts. Each has a door and window in a shared, crowstepped gabled porch, flanked by a tripartite window. A single timber tripartite dormer with a bargeboard sits above.

The east and west (end) elevations have a door to the end cottages in a forward bay, flanked at both ends by a five-light mullioned and transomed window. The east end includes a small window in the next bay and a stair window that breaks the string course. A recessed section to the rear features a door and a tripartite window. The west end has a stair window and a recessed section to the rear with a door, a small window, and a tripartite window.

The south (rear) elevation has been altered and extended. The original fabric displays a near-symmetrical arrangement with small dormers and crowstepped gables, mirroring the front features. Outshots, with crowstepped gables to the central and end blocks and piended gables elsewhere, have been added. While the window openings are now irregular, the upper gables retain a three-window symmetrical arrangement to the central block, and an off-centre bipartite window to each end block.

The original panelled doors have been replaced. Windows are timber sash and case, originally with four panes over one, and many have been altered. The roofs are covered in Welsh slate. Tall stacks are symmetrically placed on the ridge, constructed from snecked rubble with projecting copes, blocking courses, and octagonal cans. Decorative rainwater hoppers and square-section downpipes are present.

The front walls are largely unaltered, consisting of a low rubble wall with a saddleback cope and single gatepiers.