13 Dudhope Terrace, Dundee

This is a two-storey, three-bay villa dating to around 1860, with a rear extension added around 1900. The house is situated on raised ground overlooking Dudhope Castle and is designed in a classical style with a piend roof. The front, or south-facing elevation, features a semicircular arched doorpiece accentuated by a decorative, broken pediment supported by pilasters, and a deep-set panelled timber door with a semicircular fanlight above. The exterior is primarily ashlar stone, with snecked rubble stone to the sides and rear, and whitewashed brick for the extension. Notable features include an eaves course, cornice, angle pilaster strips to the south side, raised margins, quoin strips, and a voussoired round-arched stair window to the north with original coloured margin glazing. The windows are margined with bracketted cills, and include stone mullions. The rear, or north, elevation has a stair window centrally placed, and a piended single-storey extension set off to the right.

The principal elevation has a door in the centre of the ground floor, flanked by canted windows, with regular window placement on the first floor.

The house retains a range of original features within. These include fine plasterwork, particularly in the drawing room where it includes a variety of small sculpted heads, black and white marble fire surrounds in the primary ground floor rooms, timber fireplaces in the first floor bedrooms, architraved panelled timber doors, deep skirting boards and a part-glazed screen door leading to the stairhall. A timber dog-leg staircase features decorative balusters, finialled newel posts, and pendant finials. The rear extension incorporates a cupola, wall cupboards, glazed brick walls, and deep china sinks.

The garden is enclosed by low coped ashlar walls to the front and stepped, high rubble walls to the rear. A shaped screen wall abuts the house on the west side and includes a pedestrian entrance with a timber door and stone lintel, as well as a two-leaf timber door to the garage. Some original timber sash and case windows remain on the ground floor of the north extension, while the stair window is a multi-pane timber sash and case design with decorative coloured margin and external secondary glazing. Other windows have a four-pane appearance achieved with PVCu glazing. The roof is covered in grey slates with a modern rooflight to the south. The chimney stacks are coped ashlar and topped with polygonal cans.