Carriage House, The White House, 17 Whitehouse Loan, Edinburgh

The Carriage House at The White House, located at 17 Whitehouse Loan in Edinburgh, dates from the earlier 19th century. This two-storey, three-bay villa is almost U-shaped and has undergone minor alterations over the years. The southern facade features coursed lightly droved ashlar, while the northern, eastern, and western sides are finished with white harling and ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a base course, cornice, panelled pilaster-quoins, and cornices with architraved surrounds for the ground floor window on the south side.

On the south entrance elevation, the building is symmetrical with three bays, highlighted by a central advanced bay topped with a pediment and flanked by pilaster-quoins. The entrance features a double-pilastered and corniced doorpiece, a panelled door, and a border-glazed fanlight, with single windows in the outer bays.

The east elevation consists of six bays, with two storeys in the outer left and a single storey in the remaining bays. A large bowed bay is located on the outer left, containing single windows at both the ground and first floors in the second bay from the left. There is a single window at the ground in the third bay, and a bipartite dormer is offset to the right above. The fourth bay has a single window, and there is a secondary entrance in the fifth bay, with another single window in the outer right bay.

The west elevation has three bays, with two storeys in the outer right bays. It features single windows in the outer right bay and an advanced five-light canted window at the ground level in the central bay, dating from 1916, along with a single window at the first floor. The first bay has two single windows at the ground, and a recessed three-light canted window is corbelled out above. The windows throughout the building are 12-pane sash and case style. The roof is grey slate with a piended design, and the stacks are harled and coped with quoin strips.

Inside, the building boasts decorative plaster cornices, plaster roses with figurative painted centres, cast-iron balusters, and a timber handrail. There is a panelled library or smoking room with a timber fireplace, and a vaulted drawing room that was added in 1916.

The carriage house is a two-storey structure with a piend roof, which includes a stable with a hayloft above and a single-storey coachman's house with chamfered angles that adjoins it, forming part of the boundary wall to Whitehouse Loan.

The property is further enhanced by gates, gatepiers, and boundary walls. There are pedestrian gateways flanking the carriage gateway on both sides, featuring panelled and studded pedestrian and carriage gates with decorative iron hinges. The gatepiers are made of corniced ashlar with pyramidal caps, and there are carriage spurs along with high coped rubble mutual and boundary walls.