Draw Well, Pinkie House, High Street, Musselburgh

Pinkie House is a late 16th century, three-storey L-plan house located on High Street in Musselburgh. The building was significantly extended to the south around 1620, creating a unified eastern facade that features nine windows, moulded stringcourses at each floor level, and seven tall wallhead stacks that taper towards the top. The fifth and sixth ground floor windows are architraved and are integrated with an arched and pilastered niche or bower feature dated 1697. A cornice is interrupted by a heraldic keyblock set in festoons.

The original north gable has twin square pepper-pot turrets connected by a corbelled parapet. The south gable, added in 1620, includes an original mullioned and transomed canted bay with seven lights and a prismatic roof. There is a one-bay western return that contains a stair tower in the re-entrant angle, which is now encapsulated in 1825 additions. The jamb of the older house on the western frontage has been raised into a tower of five lower storeys from 1620, featuring a corbelled stair tower in the re-entrant angle and circular angle towers, all topped with ogee roofs. The southern half of the frontage adjacent to the tower has a crenellated parapet, which was deepened on plan by William Burn in 1825. The twin crowstepped gables have a single-storey entrance porch flanked by octagonal features and include mullioned and transomed windows, with five-light windows on the first floor and two two-light windows above.

The south-east range is a lower three-storey section with dormer heads and a segmentally arched transe, featuring ridge stacks and two square outshots that project into the courtyard, now connected by an 1825 corridor. An 18th century three-window bow was added at the eastmost bay on the south elevation. The glazing is primarily small-paned sashes from the 18th and 19th centuries. The courtyard walls, originally measuring 120 feet north-south and 140 feet east-west, only partly survive. Within the courtyard, there is a Renaissance draw well with a three-stepped base and a square plan arched superstructure. This features a panelled podium, Doric columned angles with obelisk finials, a lettered frieze, and an open crown top with a baluster and urn finial.

Inside, the first floor boasts a painted gallery with a timber ceiling measuring 85 feet by 19 feet, along with high-quality plaster ceilings dating from the early to mid-17th century.