Seymour Lodge, 259 Perth Road, Dundee

Charles and Leslie Ower, 1880. Dramatic Victorian Gothic

villa, square plan with window projections 2-storey and

attic, coursed rubble with ashlar dressings.

S elevation continuous cusped frieze links 2 advanced

bays, left bay ashlar fronted 4-light mullioned and

transomed window at first and second floors. Facetted

French pavilion roof with corbelled bargeboarded 3-light

dormer. Right bay mullioned and transomed windows, 4-light

ground, 3-light 2nd floor with bracketted and brattished

fish-scale slate awning. Pointed hood-moulded light over

within steep cusped elaborately bargeboarded gable.

W elevation right bay similar to S elevation but with

half-piended gable. Half piended and gabled porch with

wooden traceried pointed arched door. Cross window to left

and 3-light half-piended dormer.

E elevation: ground-floor advanced 4-light bay, 3-light window

over with cusped frieze balcony, cross and 3-light mullioned

and transomed windows to right. Short colonettes carry 2

3-light dormers with incised roundels and half-piended

bargeboarded roofs. 1-storey E wing has quatrefoil parapet to

Seymour Street.

Rear: plainer 1 and 2 storey wings. 3-light stair window.

Steep decoratively banded slate roofs with cusped overhanging

eaves, wrought-iron finials and tall corbelled stacks.

INTERIOR: good plasterwork in most rooms. Neat stained

glass panels in reception. Plainer glass to stair, cast-iron

bannisters. Coving and blind arcade to cupola in pavilion

roof. Some later partitions.

Rubble-built boundary walls and ashlar piers. Ornate gothic

cast-iron railings to Seymour Street only.