Belmont House, 8 Craigmillar Park, 6B, 6, 6A, Edinburgh

Belmont House, built around 1885, is a two-storey, three-bay classical house located at 8 Craigmillar Park in Edinburgh. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, while the sides and rear feature squared and snecked rubble. Architectural details include a base course, broken pediments above lugged architraves for the window openings, a cill course for the ground floor windows, and advanced, bracketed cills for the first-floor windows. There is a dividing band course and cornice, an eaves course, and a cornice with a blocking course. The quoins are decoratively carved, with the ground floor panelled and featuring a central diamond motif, and partially fluted Ionic strip pilasters on the first floor.

On the east elevation, steps lead to a central porch flanked by red sandstone square plan columns with Renaissance-style carvings, a carved parapet, and a heraldic lion. The entrance has a moulded architrave leading to a two-leaf panelled outer door, with small paned glazing on the panelled vestibule door and a plate glass fanlight with border glazing. Above, there is a single window in a recessed position on the first floor. To the outer left, an advanced bay features tripartite windows on both floors, while the outer right has paired single windows on both floors.

The north elevation also has steps leading to a central entrance via a former Venetian stair window, with a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight. Surrounding panels contain small paned stained glass, and there are single windows on both floors to the outer right.

The house features plate glass and timber sash and case windows, and a grey slate piended roof. The tall, corniced, and coped wallhead stacks have decorative carvings and a heraldic panel on the north side.

The interior was not seen in 1996. The property is enclosed by low coped rubble boundary walls along the street, with panelled gatepiers topped with decoratively carved caps that bear the house name, and replacement railings.