Ashludie, Monifieth, Dundee

Ashludie is a late 19th-century mansion house, dated 1866, designed by James MacLaren. It is currently used as a hospital building (as of 2012). The building is two storeys and an attic, with a symmetrical, rectangular plan and a Jacobean style. Later extensions include a three-storey addition to the north (1928) and a single-storey addition to the west. Advanced corner bays and lower, two-storey service wings are located to the rear.

The house is constructed of regular, coursed and stugged masonry, with polished ashlar dressings, and a slate roof. The windows are predominantly two- and four-pane sash and case.

The south elevation is symmetrical, featuring advanced corner bays and a central portico. It has decoratively cut long and short raised quoins at ground floor level, with flush detailing above and engaged angle colonnettes with annulets. Shaped gables have square, corbelled angle pedestals with urns, heraldic panels, and wrought-iron finials. Projecting windows are located at the west, with a pierced parapet, and a canted window above with a delicate string course, lead roof, and oculus. A canted window with cornice and brattishing is at the east, and a tripartite window with slender colonnettes and a central double scroll cornice is at the first floor, alongside a single window with moulded architraves and a segmental pediment. The central portico has an imposing arcaded design with keystoned and moulded round arches springing from Peterhead granite, shafted columns with composite capitals, set between banded piers. The portico includes scroll supports to the plinth, a pierced parapet with armorial details, and lugged margins, a cornice, and triangular strapwork decoration on the ground floor; a tiny double scroll motif is on the first floor. Dormer heads have decorative segmental heads, with corbelled and carved parapets, (ball finials having been removed). A shaped gable at the center incorporates a twisted stack. A cill course is present at the first floor level, and there are two symmetrical ridge stacks.

The west elevation has three irregular bays, with plainer fenestration than the south. A canted ground floor window with brattishing is within a shaped chimney gable on the south side. A low, two-storey service wing with rounded dormers is on the north, alongside the single-storey later addition.

The east elevation, in three bays, mirrors the west but has a shaped gable at the center. A service wing includes rectangular pediments and a canted, two-storey window to the north, possibly a later addition. A single-storey, piended-roof hall extends to the east, along with other 20th-century additions.

The north elevation is five bays, with a centre canted section and a piended roof. It showcases regular fenestration and skew chimney gables. A small, single-storey external larder is situated at the northeast service wing. The 1928, three-storey former nurses' home extends north from the northeast corner.

The interior features fine cornice and ceiling plasterwork in the hall and principal rooms, marked with AG initials. Original marble chimneypieces are present, with a Peterhead granite chimneypiece featuring a richly patterned tiled hearth and linings in the hall. An imperial staircase has a fine strapwork balustrade and statuettes, and a Venetian window features patterned, coloured glass, colonnettes with composite capitals, and flanking sash and case windows with similar glass.

A long, rubble coped wall extends to the west. Low quadrant walls with end- and gate-piers incorporate base courses and moulded caps.