Almond Lodge, 4 Barnton Avenue West, Edinburgh

James Miller, 1939. 2-storey, 9-bay H-plan Georgian style house grouped 4-4-1 with single storey wing to E; subdivided later 20th century. Red brick; projecting artificial sandstone cills; dentilled overhanging timber eaves. No 4: 2-storey, 5-bay with painted, columned and pedimented entrance to left of centre; advanced bay to outer right. No 4B: 2-storey, 4-bay house set in advanced wing to outer left; painted, pilastered doorpiece; single storey wing beyond.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door at ground off-set to right of centre (No 4); diamond-paned fanlight; pedimented doorcase comprising engaged pilasters, detached Doric columns, plain frieze, dentilled cornice and tympanum; single window at 1st floor above. Round-arched stair window in bay to left of entrance; raised keystone; low polished cill; regularly fenestrated at both floors in 2 bays to right; single window in advanced bay to outer right. Pedimented entrance off-set to right of centre in advanced wing to outer left

(No 4B); replacement timber panelled door; plate-glass fanlight; pilastered door surround; single window at 1st floor; regularly fenestrated at both floors in remaining bays to left and right. Round-arched boarded timber door centred in single storey wing to outer left; bipartite window in bay to outer right; boarded timber garage doors in bay to outer left.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-storey, 5-bay. Infilled round-arched bipartite arcade at ground in bay to outer left comprising central Doric column, flanking 2-leaf glazed small-pane doors. Single windows in remaining bays at ground and 1st floors.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to all elevations. Tiled piended roof, swept at eaves; rounded ridging between wings. Tall corniced brick stacks; tall stack to rear of garage; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS: cast-iron piers with ball-finials and horizontal iron railings flanking entry to 4B; brick corniced gatepiers to No 4.