112-114 Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh

Beechwood House is a substantial, two-storey and basement classical mansion, dating back to 1780, situated on Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh. Around 1799, William Sibbald added slightly recessed, symmetrical, single-storey and basement wings to the property. The front elevation is constructed from polished, coursed sandstone ashlar, with polished sandstone dressings, while the sides of the main block are harled and the sides of the wings are rubble. A band course runs between the basement and ground floor, and a blind balustrade sits between the basement and ground floor of the wings. A cornice and blocking course tops the main block, with quoins adding definition. Raised margins and block cills are also present.

The main entrance features a perron staircase leading to a Doric doorpiece, centrally positioned on the front elevation at ground level. Basement level has access doors to the sides of the staircase. Basement windows are evident in each bay, including those in the wings. The doorpiece is supported by a pair of columns with a narrow light between them, above a panelled timber door with a rectangular fanlight. Windows flank the door on either side of the main block. Large windows are positioned in each bay at ground floor level of the wings, and windows are present in each bay of the main block at the second floor level.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with 12 panes each, except for the ground floor windows of the wings, which have 18 panes. The roof is grey slate, piended over the main block and wings. The main block features shouldered wallhead stacks, while the wings have adjoining transverse coped stacks with tall cylindrical cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.

A short distance along Corstorphine Road, at numbers 112-114, stands a two-storey, three-bay, late 18th century house. It has a centrally positioned door at ground level, flanked by windows on both floors, with a smaller window at ground level to the outer left. A window is present on the side elevation at both floor levels on the right-hand side, and a single-storey lean-to porch is attached to the right. This house also has timber sash and case windows and a grey slate roof with skews, coped ridge and gable head stacks, moulded cylindrical cans, and cast iron rainwater goods.

A coped rubble boundary wall runs alongside the property. A corner section of ashlar-coped rubble wall includes a two-storey, piend-roofed out-building. The wall sweeps to an ashlar-framed gateway with a later wrought-iron gate. The out-building itself has grey slates, stone skews, a timber-boarded door, and a small-pane glazed timber window.