2 Post Office Lane, North Queensferry

This is a late 18th century, two-storey, three-bay cottage located on a prominent corner site at the junction of Main Street and Post Office Lane in North Queensferry. The house is rectangular in plan and incorporates a large, single-storey, modern extension to the south, along with a forestair leading to the north. The exterior is rendered and painted, with stone cills marking the windows.

The north elevation, which is the principal facade, features a central forestair and windows on either side at ground floor level. A central first-floor door is flanked by windows close to the eaves. The west elevation has a first-floor window positioned slightly to the right and a ground floor entrance leading to a courtyard. The south elevation includes a ground floor window to the left, the modern extension which is centrally located, an entrance door to the left return, and sliding patio doors to the right return. A bipartite first-floor window sits to the left, with further windows flanking the extension. The east elevation displays a ground floor window to the right and a first-floor window to the left.

Most windows are 12-pane timber sash and case windows with distinctive horns. A few first-floor windows to the left of the extension are smaller 8-pane timber sash and case windows with horns. A modern glazed door is above the forestair. The roof is pitched and covered in grey slates, with raised ashlar coped skews, beaked skewputts, coped gablehead stacks, and circular and octagonal clay cans.

The interior was not inspected in 2002.

Historically, the house was two dwellings and has since been converted into a single residence. The ground in the garden rises to the south, the former site of two stables. The forestair is a traditional feature, characteristic of local houses and among the few remaining in North Queensferry. The building represents a vernacular style common to Fife coastal towns and villages, and is shown on the 1856 Ordnance Survey map.