Ballumbie House, Ballumbie Road, Dundee

Ballumbie House is a large, classically-styled house dating from 1810, with significant extensions and remodelling undertaken in 1902 by James Findlay. Originally a rectangular two-storey, basement, and attic structure, it was situated on a sloping site. The house was extended to the east and embellished in a mix of Arts and Crafts and baronial styles, though it now stands as a roofless shell (as of 1991).

The house is constructed of harled rubble with ashlar and bull-faced dressings, formerly covered by a Caithness stone slate roof. A band course runs along the ground floor, and there are bull-faced irregular crow-stepped gables with ashlar coped stacks. The windows are predominantly 12-pane sash and case frames, particularly in the earlier part of the house; some casements were added during the later extensions. Many windows are now missing or bricked up.

The north elevation features a round-headed entrance arch with a hoodmould and label stops on an advanced gable, with a window above. There are two windows at ground floor level to the right, and one at first floor (blocked on the right side). A later recessed bay is positioned at the far left, with a bipartite window at ground and first floor levels. Further features include a corbelled segmental bay at the first floor of the re-entrant angle and an advanced gable with three asymmetrically placed windows to the outer left.

The east elevation incorporates an advanced gable with a further single-storey gable advanced at the right angle, a basement entrance door, and various windows at ground, first, and attic levels. A narrow recessed bay to the left has windows at all three levels, while an advanced bay to the outer left features two large gunloop openings at ground floor and a roof that slopes down to first-floor level.

The south elevation is characterized by a full-height canted bay corbelled to a crow-stepped gable, with windows at basement, first, and second floor levels (some partially blocked). A forestair leads to a balcony, which has been later bricked up and roofed. A round tower corbelled to a square and gabled form is positioned on the left angle, with windows at ground and first floor levels and various openings at basement level. Further windows are present at ground, first, and basement levels to the right. A later advanced gable on the outer right incorporates windows at basement level, a four-light window at ground floor, a recessed shallow-canted tripartite window at first floor level, and a window at gable level. A segmental bay and a gabled bay advanced from the original house are found at the re-entrant angle, with a window at each floor.

The west gable has two windows at ground and first floor, of differing sizes, and a gable stack.

Despite the collapse of most of the interior floors, sculpted chimney pieces remain on the principal floor, demonstrating earlier decorative detail.