9 Bonaly Road, Bonaly, Edinburgh

9 Bonaly Road is a former farmhouse built around 1840, with enlargements made around 1850 and later additions. This two-storey building has an L-shaped plan and features a prominent advanced chamfered gable on the north side. There is an entrance turret in the re-entrant angle topped with a conical roof and a decorative wrought-iron weather vane. To the east, there are two single-storey and attic outshots. The exterior is constructed of squared, coursed sandstone, with stugged and polished ashlar used for window and door dressings, and an eaves course. The windows are regularly spaced and have raised ashlar margins.

On the north elevation, there is a circular re-entrant tower that contains a timber panelled door set in a round-arch roll-moulded doorway, which is topped by a semi-circular plate glass fanlight and a hoodmould with floreate stops. Above this, there is a deep cornice and a bipartite mullioned window. To the right, there is an advanced canted window at ground level and a single window above. The advanced gable to the left features canted corners at ground level, each with a light, and corbelled to a square at the first floor, with mullioned bipartite windows both at ground and above. A thistle finial adorns the gable. There are also two modern garage doors located in a recessed outshot to the outer left.

The west side elevation consists of two bays, with the main gable on the left and a later, narrower gable with a plain gable-head stack on the right. This elevation is regularly fenestrated, featuring a window at ground level on the left with a small bracketed canopy.

The east elevation has two advanced gables; the left one is slightly higher and contemporary with the house, featuring a modern glazed door at ground level and a window above. The right gable, dating from the later 19th century, may have been a former cartshed or outbuilding and is slightly advanced, with a hopper window in the attic.

The south elevation was not accessible in 2002. The building predominantly features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The chimney stacks are corniced and chamfered, topped with tall clay cans. The skews are ashlar-coped with scrolled skewputs, and the roof is covered with graded grey slate.