The Caledonian Railway Company's hotel at its Edinburgh terminus opened for business in 1903. It's another one of those red sandstone buildings more associated with the west of Scotland than the east, prompting the following comment by the architectural historian, Professor Charles McKean,
"The Caledonian deserved its canard that it had been conceived and reared in Glasgow, before being shunted along the railway only to burst out of the tunnel at the other end of the line." -- C McKean, Edinburgh, Portrait Of A City, 1991
The inscription on the lintel is: "God bless the baxters of Edinbrugh [sic]who built this house 1675". The Ancient Incorporation of Baxters (bakers) had a long association with Dean Village, where there were several mills which provided the baxters with flour.