Gatelodge and Gatpiers, North Esk Lodge, North High Street, Musselburgh

The property comprises a lodge, gatepiers, and a villa dating to the early 19th century, with substantial additions and alterations in the mid-19th century and early 20th century.

The mid-19th century gatepiers are of painted ashlar, set on an advanced base course, and feature chamfered angles and a small cornice with a blocking course. They are topped by panelled obelisks with ball finials. A pedestrian gate is situated to the right, with raised margins and surmounted by a Dutch gablet.

The lodge is an early 19th century single-storey building built into a high rubble garden wall, with two windows facing the street. It has a piended slate roof, harled walls with raised window margins, and six-pane sash windows. A low chimney stack is positioned at the centre of the ridge, from which rises a remaining concave-sided octagonal Jacobean chimney shaft. The return elevation is of sandstone rubble and includes one bipartite window.

The main house, dating circa 1835/40, is a large, elaborately detailed neo-Jacobean villa of polished ashlar. The south elevation is two-storey and near-symmetrical, five bays wide. An advanced, slightly off-centre gabled entrance bay features a projecting doorpiece with a cornice and Jacobean stonework pediment, a stepped string course above, and an ornate Dutch gable with a concave-sided octagonal chimney shaft at its apex, scrolled skew ends. Steps lead to the door, flanked by ball finials. Two architraved and corniced windows are positioned on either side of the ground and first floors, unevenly spaced; those on the first floor are topped with pedimented gablets. The return gable has a single step and skew ends with scrolled ends and a fleur-de-lis finial. Projecting tripartite windows are present on the ground and first floors, with strapwork on the first floor apron and a pierced parapet above the cornice. A single attic window is situated above, with a strapwork head. A lower wing extends to the rear, with one window on the ground and first floors, mirroring the entrance front. A lower, matching two-storey, two-bay link was added by Lorimer in 1904; it is part two storeys, with attics, and part three storeys at a right angle, featuring a gable to the front. The total front width is seven windows, unevenly spaced, with two on each floor of the gable end. A large square bay window with a cornice and parapet is centrally placed on the two-storey section, which also includes three piended square dormers. All windows are architraved and single-pane sash. Both sections are of ashlar with ridge slate roofs.