Beechmount House, 102 Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh

John Watson, 1900. Built for Sir George Anderson, Treasurer of the Bank of Scotland. Large richly detailed 2-storey Italianate villa. Band course at 1st-floor. Polished sandstone ashlar to principal elevations, remainder snecked. Lead ogee domes to outer corners.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: single storey 3-bay projection in centre: rusticated entrance porch to left, with balustraded platform and Bank of Scotland crest; bipartite window and Diocletian window above in centre; bow with 3 lights to right. 6 round-arched lights above at first floor; 2-storey tower with open viewing platform and dome to right on SW angle.

N ELEVATION: irregular fenestration; fire stair; servants' wing projects at left.

E ELEVATION: irregular fenestration; single storey addition to rear of main block.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Tripartite window with Serlian architrave at ground floor in left bay, initials of the owner's wife, AM, carved in the tympanum; 3 round-arched windows above. 2-storey bow in 2nd bay from left; rectangular windows at the ground floor; round-arched windows and Ionic attached columns at the 1st floor; date stone in centre at 1st floor. Tripartite window with Serlian architrave at ground floor in 2nd bay from right, initials of owner, GA, carved in tympanum; 3 round-arched windows above; single arched window to left. Single storey bow in right bay; 3 round-arched windows above. Richly decorated single storey, oriel at SE angle.

2-pane timber sash and case windows. Shallow-pitched slate roof; corniced stacks.

INTERIOR: fluted Ionic pilasters to ground floor hall; marble fireplace with grandiose chimneypiece in ground floor hall; imperial stair at end of hallway. Opulent main rooms on ground floor with heavy marble chimneypiece in E end. Ionic columns to 1st floor hall. Rich detailing, fluted Corinthian columns and Adamesque chimneypiece in SW room at 1st floor.

GATE LODGE: rectangular-plan, single storey building with overhanging eaves and flat-roofed dormers. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished long and short surrounds. Keystoned, round-headed openings; rectangular windows and doors, some with cornices. Grey slate roof; centred dormer to each face; corniced stack with pair of cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

COACH HOUSE 1 ? storey, squared and snecked stone. L-plan main building with single storey addition in re-entrant angle; slate roof; straight skews; corniced stacks. 2-bay piended roof building to left; 2 single windows at ground floor; single dormer window in centre roof.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped rubble walls; square plan panelled sandstone ashlar gatepiers with cushion caps.

LAMP COLUMNS: Corinthian columns; plain shafts.