Hillwood, 76 Clermiston Road, Edinburgh

This is a near-rectangular, three-storey baronial-style mansion house, designed by MacGibbon and Ross and built in 1872. The house is constructed of squared and snecked, bull-faced yellow sandstone, with polished sandstone ashlar used for dividing string courses and decorative cartouches. Rock-faced rusticated quoins, long and short surrounds, crowstepped gables, and crenellated parapets contribute to the building's appearance.

The south (entrance) elevation features a machicolated and crenellated, three-stage circular entrance tower. An advanced, square-plan, shaped-gable porch is positioned at ground level, leading to a roll-moulded central doorway with a two-leaf panelled timber door. Single windows are located to the returns of the porch. The tower has bipartite windows flanking the porch at the first stage, a central bipartite oriel window at the second stage, a cartouche decoration, and a bipartite window at the third stage. To the right of the tower, a single window is set at ground level, with a bipartite window above and an arched window in the gable. A canted tripartite oriel bay window extends from the ground to the first floor on the left side, also with a cartouche. Single windows are found in the outer left bay.

The north elevation has a central bay with a single window to the left and a timber door with a fanlight to the right at ground level. A single window is above to the left. Further to the left, two single windows are at ground level, with a single window above. To the right, a bipartite window is at ground level, aligned with a bipartite window at the first floor, and a single gable window breaks the eaves.

The west (Clermiston Road) elevation contains three pairs of bipartite windows at ground level in the central bay, a central tripartite window at the first floor, and three single openings at the second floor, with the middle opening breaking the eaves. The year "1872" is inscribed within the gable. A canted oriel window forms a pointed arch and bracketed seat at ground level in the left bay, with a tripartite canted window at the first and second storeys breaking the eaves. An octagonal conical turret is topped with a ball finial. A quadripartite canted bay window is located at ground level in the gabled bay to the right, with tripartite windows at the first and second floors.

The east elevation has advanced bays to the left and centre. The outer left bay has single windows at ground, first floor, and gable. A single window is at the second floor and gable, to the left. The centre bay incorporates a tripartite window at ground level, a bipartite window at the first floor, and single windows at ground, first, and gable levels. A door is situated at ground level to the left in the right bay, with a single window aligned at the first floor. A single window is at ground level, a first-floor window and a dormer to the outer right. A crenellated wall and outhouse are located at the rear.

The majority of windows are 2-pane timber sash and case, with some 4-pane and 6-pane examples, and various skylights are present. The roof is covered with graded grey slate. Corniced gablehead stacks, buttressed ridge stacks, and circular cans are also features. The interior of the house was not inspected in 1997.

Coped, squared and snecked sandstone boundary walls flank the vehicular entrance, with coped gate piers surmounted by lanterns. Iron gates complete the arrangement.