The buildings, despite the 2005 major renovations, have retained many of their original fixtures and fittings, including floors, wall panelling, fireplace and fireplace surrounds, wallpaper, skirting, cornices and decorative ceilings, doors and door fittings and stained glass windows.

In 2005, a major expansion was undertaken which included the construction of a large apartment-style complex to the E side of the house.īoth the main house, stables and lodge house will be affected by the new development, which will see the renovation of the buildings to form new residential dwellings together with new-build apartments. Tor House became a nursing home run by the Edinburgh and Lothian Baptist Housing Association in 1971. It was one of five Groups across the UK, with nearly 100 balloon squadrons. Between April 1940 and July 1943, the house was also used as the headquarters for the No. The latest private owner, D W Paton, occupied the house until 1947 when it was then used as a convalescent home for RAF servicemen, then as a Salvation Army home for unmarried mothers. An additional wing to the house was added between 1896–1908 on the W side, undertaken by the then owner, James Ainslie, a wholesale wine and spirit merchant.

Land to the E was appropriated, and a large stable block and lodge house were also constructed to the NE and S of the house respectively. By the late 19th century the house was known as Torwood, and had a large conservatory to its E side about half the size of the house, with other smaller expansions made to the rear service wing. Tor House was built for James Craig, proprietor of Craig & Rose, manufacturers of luxury paints, in 1850, in a Neo-Jacobean style. The works were undertaken, 11–13 March 2020, in advance of development as a condition of planning consent on the renovation of the 19th-century buildings. NT 22223 73227 A historic building survey was carried out of a former country house (later a nursing home), together with its associated stables and lodge house, at 30 Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh.

Tor house