Sundial And Entrance Gatepiers, , Ornamental Garden Walls, Including Former Stable Block, Musselburgh, Edenhall Road, (Formerly Pinkieburn House), Edenhall Hospital

A substantial villa designed by Peddie and Washington Browne in 1899, incorporating earlier fabric from 1826. The building stands as a fine example of late 19th-century domestic architecture with exceptional interior decoration.

The main villa is a central two-storey, three-bay asymmetrical composition with attic and basement. To the left sits an ancillary piended two-bay section featuring a double height canted bay with polygonal roof. A central gabled porch marks the principal entrance, while a prominent advanced square corbelled four-stage tower with ogee roof and round-arched stone dormer head dominates the garden elevation. To the right, a further two-storey, three-bay addition has a piended roof with an advanced central chimney breast flanked by obelisks; five-light margined stone windows grace the first floor of the side and rear elevations.

The exterior combines coursed rubble with sandstone margins to the original villa sections, contrasting with finely jointed sandstone featuring yellow sandstone raised quoins, tabbed window margins, and a corbelled eaves course. The windows predominantly feature multi-pane timber sash and case glazing, with some plate glass to the main elevation. The roofscape comprises stepped, piended, and multi-pitched slate with ashlar coped skews, tall margined corniced end stacks, and simple brattishing to the tower.

The interior displays exceptional craftsmanship and decoration in late Victorian Jacobean style with Art Nouveau detailing. The entrance hall features ornate painted timber Jacobean panelling, while the timber staircase incorporates barley twist banisters and a marble-topped mahogany fretwork radiator cover. The library showcases a polished hardwood columned chimney piece with shouldered Art Nouveau marble and tiled insert, highly decorative timber panelling with niches and arched bookshelves, a panelled and glazed wall screen, and a Jacobean style plaster ceiling with pendants. The drawing room contains timber panelling to dado level, an ornate two-tone coloured marble chimneypiece set in a deep alcove with paired windows, and a highly ornate tall carved overmantle with a cornice of niches depicting a hunting scene. An ornately carved plaster Jacobean style coffered ceiling crowns the room. Fine stained glass panels include armorial crests to the inglenook fire surround and an early 20th-century Art Nouveau four-part scene depicting a bridge. Timber fretwork radiator covers, ornate door handles, and plates complete the scheme. The study features timber dado-height panelling with an advanced, corniced, and pilastered overmantel framing a watercolour painting of a loch scene above a tiled and marble-framed insert, alongside decorative cornicing, timber panelled shutters, and Art Nouveau style fireplaces. Upper floor rooms contain decorative Art Nouveau fireplaces with brick and delft-style tile inserts.

The former stable block dates from circa 1826 with later additions. It is a two-storey, seven-bay rectangular-plan stone structure with paired cart shed openings and round-headed and gabled eaves-breaking dormers, situated on a stepped sloping site. An early 20th-century projecting entrance spans five central bays at upper level with steeply sloped roof sections. The interior has been modernised for accommodation use.

The ornamental garden walls comprise stepped coursed ashlar with a dentil course and large ball finials to the south terrace. Symmetrical paired steps descend to the garden where a round stone sundial sits upon a stepped octagonal plinth. Paired walls with stone arches extend from the south elevation of the house, leading to and flanking an open timber loggia with a brick herringbone floor.

The entrance to the site is marked by square ashlar pyramidal-capped gatepiers at the north entrance.