Mount Pleasant, Hill Street, Dumfries

Mount Pleasant is an Italianate villa built in the later 19th century, standing two storeys tall and featuring a tower. The structure is made of squared, stugged, and snecked red rubble with ashlar dressings. It has round-arched openings with key stones and impost blocks throughout. The elevation facing Hill Street is symmetrical, showcasing an advanced three-stage tower flanked by gables. Each gable has bipartite windows on the ground floor and single windows on the first floor. The tower features a central pilastered doorway, a narrow window on the first floor, and a bipartite window on the second floor. There are band courses between the floors and tower stages, with the tower topped by a broad modillioned cornice and a finialled low-pitch pyramid roof. The gables and skews are adorned with ball finials.

On the southeast return elevation, there are two bays with bipartite windows on the ground floor and single windows with gabletted dormer heads on the first floor. The northeast elevation facing Maxwell Street has three bays, with single-pane sash windows throughout. The chimney stacks are mostly paired square flues, and the roof is covered with slate. The property is enclosed by a high garden wall featuring four gatepiers at the corner, which are square with curved angles and shaped caps. There is also a link dwarf wall with modern wrought-iron railings.