4 Somerville Place, Dundee

3 Somerville Place in Dundee is a semi-detached pair of villas built in the Regency style, originally designed by James Black in 1830 and later raised from a single storey to two storeys by C & L Ower around 1890. The buildings are harled and whitewashed with ashlar margins.

The facade was originally symmetrical, featuring twin centre tripartite windows, although No 4 now has a single light. The entrances are set back beneath the eaves, flanked by outer canted bays adorned with ornate cast-iron lattice work. The canted bay of No 4 was heightened around 1870, while the remainder was heightened around 1890, with a curved oriel window at No 3. There is an ashlar party division with a carved corbel. At the attic level of No 4, there is a timber-framed gabled square-plan outlook room topped with a pyramidal slate roof and lead cresting, fronted by gothic iron brattishing. A single-storey bow-windowed wing was added to the west side around 1870.

The side and rear of No 4 face Upper Constitution Street and include a two-storey east wing room with square-section wallhead stacks and segmental arched windows, although the fenestration has been altered. There is also a stair leading to the outlook room.

A detached two-storey billiard room block, designed in a similar style but featuring a modern garage door, has arched lancets above with modern glazing. This structure was formerly connected to the house by a conservatory bridge, which was demolished in 1980.

The roofs are piended with slate and have overhanging eaves. Ashlar stacks are present, with spiral cans at No 4. The windows are sash and case, featuring a later two-pane glazing pattern, with lying panes on two windows at the rear.

Inside No 4, the billiard room (No. 6) has an ornate late-Victorian coved ceiling and a tiled chimneypiece, along with sunflower ventilators in the outlook room. No. 6 was converted into a one-bedroom flat in 1988.

The property is enclosed by rubble-built boundary walls, which are low at the front with later wrought-iron railings, and high at the sides and rear, with new openings created in 1992.