Ainslie Grange Hotel, 8 Whitehouse Terrace, Edinburgh

Ainslie Grange Hotel is a baronial villa built around 1865, featuring a T-plan front elevation. The center and part of the right side are designed as an L-plan tower, complete with an entrance turret in the re-entrant angle. The left range is more deeply recessed and includes a pinkie-type bartizan. The building is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, featuring a base course, dividing string courses, cornices, and chamfered reveals.

The south entrance elevation showcases a three-stage circular entrance turret set in the re-entrant angle to the right of the advanced three-storey center. It has a basket-arched doorway with a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight above, along with a hoodmould over a square blank tablet. The first and second floors have hoodmoulded single windows, and decorative corbels are present at the eaves. The gutter is moulded as a cornice, and the roof is a grey slate conical shape with scallopied flashing and a cast-iron weathervane finial. Recessed single bay ranges are located to the outer right and left, each with single windows at the ground and first floors. The first-floor windows break the eaves in piend-roofed dormerheads with cast-iron finials. The outer left features a square section corbelled bartizan with a slit window and a finialled pepperpot roof. The central advanced range includes a piend-roofed two-storey canted window, with a single hoodmoulded window at the second floor, detailed similarly to the flanking windows. The roof is a French pavilion style with cast-iron brattishing. The villa has three and six-pane sash and case windows, a grey slate piended roof, lead flashing, a shouldered and corniced wallhead stack, and moulded cans.

The lodge, located to the west, is a single-storey, three-bay structure with a flat-roofed extension to the south, adjacent to the gatepiers. It uses similar materials to the main house, with a base course, long and short quoins, and a cornice. The advanced central bay features a single window breaking the eaves in a corniced piend-roofed dormer, with similar windows in the flanking bays. Access is through a slapping in the quadrant wall, and the lodge has 12-pane sash and case windows, a grey slate piended roof, lead flashing, corniced ridge stacks, and moulded cans.

The gatepiers and boundary walls consist of two corniced and coped ashlar gatepiers topped with ball finials, along with high coped rubble boundary walls.