Brown Acre, Dundas Castle

Circa 1910. Single storey and attic 4-bay symmetrical group of 4 semi-detached houses with mock Tudor details. Harled walls with applied half-timber decoration in gableheads.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-bay, with roof swept down to single storey over 2 centre bays creating porches, set between 2 advanced gables of outer bays. Small-pane timber windows advanced to centre with panelled and glazed timber doors on returns, flanking bays recessed at ground; 2-storey gabled outer bays with regular fenestration. Gabled dormers to centre bays.

E ELEVATION: 2-bay asymmetrical elevation comprising window at ground in bay to left, entrance door with tiled timber canopy porch in bay to right; window breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead with half-timbered dormerhead centred at 1st floor centre.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; centre 3 bays advanced, with pair of narrow windows at ground in centre bay, doors and windows in flanking bays; wallhead dormers centred above. Wide gabled bays to outer left and right; gabled single storey wing advanced in left bay.

Mullioned timber casements; red clay tile roofs to principal pitches and dormers; overhanging timber eaves with exposed rafter ends and timber barge boards; cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative barge boards centred over inner bays of principal elevation. Harled 8-flue ridge stacks with deep moulded and corniced harled copes and predominantly red circular cans.

RAILINGS, GATES AND WALL: hooped iron railings with ball-finialled stanchions and matching gates enclosing gardens to S and E. Random rubble wall with saddleback copes to E.