Villa, 24 Nith Place, Dumfries

This building is a Baroque town house located at 24 Nith Place, Dumfries, likely constructed between 1730 and 1750. It has two storeys and a basement, featuring five bays, with the inner three bays being advanced and topped with a pediment. The exterior is painted ashlar with rusticated quoins. The windows, now fitted with plate glass sashes, are set within lugged and key-stoned architraves and have bracketed cills. The entrance boasts a Corinthian-columned and pedimented doorpiece adorned with swags and a mask, leading to a panelled door with a decorative fanlight. The basement opens onto the slope of the ground on the right side. The building is topped with a slate roof, featuring a dentilled cornice, an urn-finialled low parapet, and an oculus in the tympanum. There are paired end stacks, although the right stack is damaged.

Inside, the front first floor rooms have been united but retain extensive original timber panelling and impressive plaster ceiling cornices. The room nearest the north features an original timber chimney piece, while the opposite room has a 19th-century chimney piece. The hall screens, which are pilastered and arched, date to the early 19th century. The interior also includes a timber stair and panelled doors within architraves.