Brunstane House, Brunstane Road South, Edinburgh

Brunstane House, located on Brunstane Road South in Edinburgh, dates back to 1639 and was originally designed in an L-plan. It was extended between 1672 and 1674 by Sir William Bruce to form a U-plan layout with an open court to the west. After 1733, William Adam made alterations and added a single-storey south range, which was later modified in the 19th century. The building features a U-plan design with three storeys and an attic, and the court is open to the west. It includes octagonal stair turrets at the re-entrant angles and square angle pavilions at the northeast and southeast corners, with the former having a pyramid roof and the latter an ogee dome. The south wing is accessed from the southeast pavilion. The structure is built of rubble and was originally harled, with slate roofs.

Inside, the property was subdivided in the 19th century but still retains much of William Adam's 18th-century decorative scheme. This includes lugged and basket-arched chimneypieces, stucco ceilings, and trophied overmantles created by Thomas Clayton. The parlour features landscape-painted sopra porte panels by James Norie.

The south wing is an early 18th-century office range that was altered and extended in the late 18th century. It is a single-storey, rubble-built structure with a modern corrugated asbestos roof. Two bays of early 18th-century work by William Adam, which were subsequently heightened, contain an 18th-century dairy featuring a deep-coved stucco ceiling by Thomas Clayton from 1742 and a chequered tiled floor.