Almondhill House, Kirkliston

Almondhill House is a mid-19th century, two-storey, four-bay rectangular house with a gabled design and a rear wing that forms a kitchen court. It is constructed from ashlar sandstone and features droved quoins, a base course, crow-stepped gables, stop-chamfered arrises to the canted window, and raised cills.

The main (south) elevation is asymmetrical, showcasing an advanced crow-stepped gable on the outer left side. It includes a two-storey canted window with a cornice above the ground floor and a half-piended stone roof. To the right, there are three nearly symmetrical bays. An open ashlar porch is situated in the re-entrant angle between the gable and the main house, featuring a half-piended slate roof supported by a sandstone Doric column and flanked by sandstone pilasters. The porch has a two-leaf, four-panelled door with an Edinburgh handle and a six-pane fanlight above it. There are two windows on the ground floor to the right, and three crow-stepped, dormer-headed windows on the first floor, along with arrow-slits in the gable heads.

The west elevation consists of a two-storey, five-bay block with a single-storey, two-bay block on the outer left. The right side features a three-bay block with tall ground floor windows and crow-stepped dormer-headed windows. The single-storey block to the outer left has a crow-stepped end gable.

On the east elevation, there is a gable wall to the left and an advanced, shouldered chimney breast at the centre. A lower bay to the right contains a dormer-headed bipartite window that breaks the eaves, with an off-centre, glazed door at ground level and a four-pane fanlight above it. There is also a window in a single-storey bay to the right. The rubble wall of the kitchen court is visible to the right, featuring semi-circular coping.

The north (rear) elevation is asymmetrical, with an enclosed court to the left. It includes coal doors with droved margins on the north elevation and a door in the right return. A door to the house is located at the centre of the link block, while a two-storey bay to the right has barred windows. The north wing on the outer right has crow-stepped gables and a window at the centre of the single-storey gable.

The house features plate glass sash and case windows on the front east elevation, and 12-pane sash and case windows at the rear and in the single-storey block. The roof is covered with grey slate and has coped diamond ridge stacks with octagonal cans.

The boundary wall is a low rubble wall with harl pointing and ashlar semi-circular coping.