Almondbank House, 44 Whitehouse Road, Edinburgh

Almondbank House, located at 44 Whitehouse Road in Edinburgh, dates back to 1778 and has various additions from the 20th century. This two-storey house with an attic features a three-bay classical design and has a basement at the rear. The structure has a near-symmetrical arrangement and is rectangular in shape, constructed from random yellow rubble sandstone with slightly raised polished dressings. It includes projecting cills, a moulded eaves course, long and short rubble quoins, and droved quoins at the rear. Notable additions include a later glazed porch at the central entry bay, a small extension to the northeast, a conservatory to the south, and a pitched garage to the north.

The east elevation features a pitched glazed porch on a sandstone plinth, centrally located at the ground level, with a single door beneath an apex and a tapering finial above. A replacement timber door is set within the original entry, which has an architraved doorpiece with fluted frieze and dentil detailing. Stone steps lead to a timber panelled door in the bay to the right of the centre, while there is a single window in the outer right bay and a bipartite window in the outer left bay, both with painted surrounds. The first floor is regularly fenestrated across all three bays.

On the north side elevation, there is a rendered single-storey piended addition in the left bay, with a single window at the first floor in the outer right bay and a small single attic window centred in the apex. The south side elevation features a pitched conservatory offset to the left of centre, with a single window at ground level in the outer right bay. The first floor has single windows offset to the right of centre, and there is a single attic window centred in the apex.

The west rear elevation has single windows in all bays at the basement, ground, and first floors, along with a piended dormer at the centre. There is a flat-roofed single-storey glazed addition to the left and various additions behind.

The house predominantly features four-pane timber sash and case windows, with two-pane sash and case windows in the bipartite window to the left of the entry. The roof is covered with graded grey slate, with raised stone skews, sandstone apex stacks to the north and south, stone coping, and various circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1996. The boundary wall is made of coped random rubble sandstone to the north, with painted brick gatepiers flanking the entry at the south, topped with octagonal caps.