Old Jail, Battery Road, North Queensferry

The Old Jail on Battery Road in North Queensferry is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan house that was formerly a village jail. It features a later central projecting square stair tower at the rear. The building is constructed from coursed and snecked rubble, with stone cills and hammer-dressed ashlar dressings and quoins.

The south elevation is symmetrical, with a central door on the ground floor flanked by windows, and three first-floor windows positioned directly above, close to the eaves. A neighboring house is attached to the right side.

The east elevation was not visible as of 2002. The north elevation includes an off-centre two-storey brick stair tower that forms the penultimate bay to the right. There is a small squared bar window on the far left, an inserted door to the right, and an advanced two-storey brick stair tower with a tall central stair window and a small ground floor window on the left return. A ground floor window is located to the far right of the stair tower, with single windows in the outer bays on the first floor.

The west elevation features a single window on the first floor to the right. The building predominantly has top-hung modern windows, with a 12-pane timber sash and case window in the stair tower and 4-pane timber sash and case windows with horns to the right of the rear elevation at ground floor. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are flat-headed ashlar skews and coped ashlar gablehead stacks.

Inside, there is an original cast-iron railing and banister on the staircase at the rear.