Ashlea, 2 Victoria Street, Monifieth

Attributed James MacLaren, circa 1870. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, square plan, classically detailed. Coursers, snecked rubble, polished dressings and raised long and short chamfered quoins, slate roof.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay, base course, cill course; single storey porch at centre, with clasping angle piers, pilastered round-arched doorpiece to S, keystoned round-headed tripartite, platform roof with brattishing; 2- and 4-pane sash and case windows, wallhead cornice and moulded rhones (glassfibre replacements in original style, 1988); twin stacks with cornice.

S ELEVATION: symmetrical with margined windows. Central corniced window, flanked by 2 canted windows with piend roofs; 1st floor fenestrations, 1 single central light with flanking bipartites;

3 gabled dormers with segmental windowheads (replaced in original style by Rennie and Son, Kingennie, 1988).

E ELEVATION: glazing pattern similar to W, 1 window altered; off-set stack with cornice; adjoining curtain wall to rear.

N ELEVATION: advanced bay at left with shouldered stack at E, single storey (altered) service wing attached; central transom and mullion stair window, round-headed and border glazed, other windows irregular; piend roofs; evidence of demolished additions.

INTERIOR: plaster cornices in ground floor hall and public rooms, painted marble chimneypiece in dining room; scale and platt staircase with richly patterned cast-iron balusters leading to unusually large landing.