Mount Pleasant, Hill Street, Dumfries

Later 19th century. Italianate villa, 2 storeys with

tower. Squared, stugged and snecked red rubble with ashlar

dressings. Margined round-arched and key-stoned openings

with impost blocks throughout. Hill Street elevation

symmetrical with advanced 3-stage tower flanked by gables,

each gable with bipartite ground floor and single 1st floor

windows. Central pilastered doorway in tower with narrow

window 1st floor and bipartite 2nd floor. Band courses

between floors and tower stages; tower has broad

modillioned cornice and finialled low-pitch pyramid roof.

Ball-finialled gables and skews. SE return elevation: 2

bays, bipartites at ground, single 1st floor windows with

gabletted dormer heads; NE elevation to Maxwell Street 3

bays. Single-pane sashes throughout. Stacks mostly paired

square flues; slate roofs. High garden wall with 4

gatepiers at corner, square piers with curved angles and

with shaped caps. Link dwarf wall with modern wrought-iron

railings.