Almond Lodge, 4 Barnton Avenue West, Edinburgh

Almond Lodge, located at 4 Barnton Avenue West in Edinburgh, is a house built in 1939 by architect James Miller. This two-storey, nine-bay house is designed in a Georgian style with an H-plan layout, featuring a single-storey wing to the east. The building is constructed of red brick and has projecting artificial sandstone cills, as well as dentilled overhanging timber eaves.

The main section, No 4, has five bays and includes a painted entrance with columns and a pediment positioned to the left of the centre. There is an advanced bay on the outer right. The adjacent No 4B is a two-storey, four-bay house set in an advanced wing to the outer left, featuring a painted pilastered doorpiece and a single-storey wing beyond.

On the north (entrance) elevation of No 4, there is a timber panelled door offset to the right of centre, topped by a diamond-paned fanlight. The entrance is framed by a pedimented doorcase with engaged pilasters, detached Doric columns, a plain frieze, a dentilled cornice, and a tympanum. Above the entrance, there is a single window on the first floor. To the left of the entrance, a round-arched stair window features a raised keystone and a low polished cill. The building is regularly fenestrated with two bays to the right and an advanced bay on the outer right.

No 4B has a replacement timber panelled door with a plate-glass fanlight and a pilastered door surround, with a single window above on the first floor. The remaining bays on both sides are regularly fenestrated. In the single-storey wing to the outer left, there is a round-arched boarded timber door, a bipartite window in the outer right bay, and boarded timber garage doors in the outer left bay.

The west (side) elevation is two-storey and five-bay, featuring an infilled round-arched bipartite arcade at ground level in the outer left bay, which includes a central Doric column and flanking two-leaf glazed small-pane doors. Single windows are present in the remaining bays on both floors.

All elevations have 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is tiled with a piended design, swept at the eaves, and has rounded ridging between the wings. The building features tall corniced brick stacks, including a tall stack at the rear of the garage and circular cans.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1996. The property is also accompanied by boundary railings and gatepiers, which include cast-iron piers with ball-finials and horizontal iron railings flanking the entry to No 4B, along with brick corniced gatepiers to No 4.