Brown Acre, Dundas Castle

Brown Acre, located at Dundas Castle, was built around 1910 and consists of a single storey and attic, featuring a symmetrical group of four semi-detached houses with mock Tudor details. The exterior has harled walls adorned with applied half-timber decoration in the gableheads.

The south elevation is a four-bay design, where the roof slopes down to a single storey over the two central bays, creating porches that are set between two advanced gables on the outer bays. The central area features small-pane timber windows that project forward, accompanied by panelled and glazed timber doors on the sides. The flanking bays are recessed at ground level, while the outer bays are two-storey gabled structures with regular window arrangements. Gabled dormers are present in the central bays.

The east elevation presents an asymmetrical two-bay layout, with a window in the left bay at ground level and an entrance door with a tiled timber canopy porch in the right bay. Above, a window breaks the eaves in a gabled dormerhead, which is centred at the first floor.

The north elevation is nearly symmetrical, with the central three bays advanced. It features a pair of narrow windows at ground level in the centre bay, with doors and windows in the flanking bays. Wallhead dormers are centred above, and wide gabled bays are located on the outer left and right. There is also a gabled single storey wing advanced in the left bay.

The houses have mullioned timber casements and red clay tile roofs on the main pitches and dormers. The eaves overhang with exposed rafter ends and timber barge boards, and the cast-iron rainwater goods add to the detail. Decorative barge boards are centred over the inner bays of the principal elevation. The harled ridge stacks have eight flues, with deep moulded and corniced harled copes and predominantly red circular cans.

Additionally, there are hooped iron railings with ball-finialled stanchions and matching gates that enclose the gardens to the south and east. A random rubble wall with saddleback copes is present on the east side.