Clifton House, Chapel Place, North Queensferry

Clifton House is a two-storey, three-bay house built in 1827 in a plain classical style. It was originally constructed for Thomas Thomson, a skipper from North Queensferry. The house’s designation as "Clifton House" first appears in records from the period when the McNair family owned it, between 1873 and 1901. Information used in this description comes from title deeds and research by local historian Robert Cubin.

The front, or South, elevation is symmetrical, with a central pilastered doorway and windows on either side. Above, there are three windows on the first floor. The East elevation features a single-storey, stone cottage projecting to the left, linked to the main house by the drawing room. A first-floor window is positioned above a ground-floor window on the East elevation. The rear, or North, elevation includes a rendered, semicircular stair tower positioned off-centre to the left, and a single-storey lean-to extension to the right, with a small ground-floor window centrally placed. The West elevation abuts an adjoining house.

The house is constructed from droved and snecked square sandstone to the front, with random rubble and partial rendering on the West elevation. The rear and sides are of random rubble with partial rendering. Stone sills and painted margins are present. Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows are found on the South elevation, while the rear extension has 2-pane timber sash and case windows with cast-iron bars. The roof is pitched and covered in grey slates, with concrete tiles on the rear extension. Details include ashlar coped skews, scrolled skewputts with floral detail, and coped gablehead stacks - a brick stack is on the West side, and a droved sandstone stack is on the East. Circular clay cans are also present.

The interior layout remains largely original, though no original features survive from 2002. The house is shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1856.