3 Somerville Place, Dundee

James Black 1830, raised from single to 2-storey by C & L Ower circa 1890. Semi-detached pair of villas in a Regency style terrace. Harled and whitewashed with ashlar margins.

FACADE ORIGINALLY SYMMETRICAL: twin centre tripartites (now single light at No 4), entrances set back beneath eaves, outer canted bays. Ornate cast-iron lattice work between canted bays. Canted bay of No 4 heightened circa 1870, a remainder heightened circa 1890, with curved oriel to No 3. Ashlar party division with carved corbel. At attic level of No 4 a timber-framed gabletted square-plan outlook room with pyramdical slate roof and lead cresting fronted by gothic iron brattishing. Single storey bow-windowed wing added to W circa 1870.

Side and rear to No 4, Upper Constitution Street: 2-storey E wing room with square-section wallhead stacks. Segmental arched windows, fenestration altered, below stair to outlook room.

Detached 2-storey billiard room block in similar style but with modern garage door, arched lancets over with modern glazing. This was formerly linked to house by a conservatory bridge, demolished 1980.

Piended slate roofs with overhanging eaves. Ashlar stacks, spiral cans to No 4. Windows sash and case, of a later 2-pane glazing pattern. Lying panes to 2 windows at rear.

INTERIOR OF NO 4: ornate late-Victorian treatment to coved ceilinged billiard room (No. 6) with tiled chimneypiece. Sunflower ventilators in outlook room. No. 6 converted to 1 bedroom flat in 1988.

Rubble-built boundary walls. Low to front with later wrought-iron railings, high to sides and rear, new openings former in 1992.