Seymour Lodge, 259 Perth Road, Dundee

Seymour Lodge, located at 259 Perth Road in Dundee, is a dramatic Victorian Gothic villa designed by Charles and Leslie Ower in 1880. The building features a square plan with window projections, consisting of two storeys and an attic, constructed from coursed rubble with ashlar dressings.

The south elevation has a continuous cusped frieze that connects two advanced bays. The left bay has an ashlar fronted four-light mullioned and transomed window on both the first and second floors. The roof is a facetted French pavilion style, topped with a corbelled bargeboarded three-light dormer. The right bay features mullioned and transomed windows, with a four-light window on the ground floor and a three-light window on the second floor, both sheltered by a bracketted and brattished fish-scale slate awning. Above, there is a pointed hood-moulded light set within a steep cusped gable that is elaborately bargeboarded.

The west elevation mirrors the right bay of the south elevation but includes a half-piended gable. It features a half-piended and gabled porch with a wooden traceried pointed arched door, a cross window to the left, and a three-light half-piended dormer.

On the east elevation, there is an advanced four-light bay on the ground floor, with a three-light window above that has a cusped frieze balcony. To the right, there are cross and three-light mullioned and transomed windows. Short colonettes support two three-light dormers, which have incised roundels and half-piended bargeboarded roofs. A one-storey east wing has a quatrefoil parapet facing Seymour Street.

The rear of the building is simpler, featuring one and two-storey wings and a three-light stair window. The steep roofs are decoratively banded with slate, featuring cusped overhanging eaves, wrought-iron finials, and tall corbelled stacks.

Inside, the villa boasts good plasterwork in most rooms, neat stained glass panels in the reception area, and plainer glass in the stairwell with cast-iron bannisters. There is coving and a blind arcade leading to the cupola in the pavilion roof, along with some later partitions.

The property is enclosed by rubble-built boundary walls and ashlar piers, with ornate gothic cast-iron railings only along Seymour Street.