55 Abbeyhill

Designed by Robert Morham for the Edinburgh Corporation, the building opened in 1896. It is a single storey red sandstone building designed in an "unusual castellated Romanesque style" with "distinctive advanced finialled, conical-roofed fishscale slated corner turrets and deep corbelled and battlemented parapet" and "animal figure gargoyles". The building was utilised as a police station until at least 1932 (when police boxes were rolled out across the city, reducing the requirement for stations). After ceasing to operate as a police station, the building was used for a period by the Edinburgh City Mission and by the United Pentecostal Church. In 1979, the building became the "Armenian…