Almondhill House, Kirkliston

Mid 19th century. 2-storey, 4-bay, gabled, rectangular- plan house with wing to rear forming kitchen court. Ashlar sandstone; droved quoins; base course; crow- stepped gables; stop-chamfered arrises to canted window; raised cills.

S (MAIN) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; advanced crow-stepped gable to outer left; 2-storey. canted window, cornice above ground floor; half-piended stone roof. 3 near- symmetrical bays to right. Open ashlar porch in re-entrant angle between gable and main house; half-piended slate roof supported on sandstone Doric column answered by sandstone pilasters; 2-leaf, 4-panelled door; Edinburgh handle; 6-pane fanlight. 2 windows to ground right. 3 crow-stepped, dormerheaded windows to 1st floor; arrow-slits in gableheads.

W ELEVATION: 2-storey, 5-bay block with single storey, 2-bay block to outer left. 3-bay block to right; tall ground floor windows; crowstepped dormerheaded windows; 2-bay block detailed similarly recessed to left. Single-storey block to outer left; crowstepped end gable.

E ELEVATION: gable wall to left; advanced, shouldered chimney breast at centre. Lower bay to right with dormerheaded bipartite window breaking eaves; ?-glazed door off-centre at ground; 4-pane fanlight; window to right in single storey bay. Rubble wall of kitchen court to right; semi-circular coping.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; enclosed court to left; coal doors with droved margins on N elevation; door in right return. Door to house at centre in link block; 2-storeyed bay to right with barred windows; N wing to outer right with crowstepped gables and window at centre of single storey gable.

Plate glass sash and case windows at front E; 12-pane sash and case windows at rear and in single store. block. Grey slate roof; coped diamond ridge stacks with octagonal cans.

BOUNDARY WALL: low rubble wall with harl pointing and ashlar semi-circular coping.