166 Nethergate, Dundee

166 Nethergate is a villa designed by David Neave in 1818. It is a two-storey building with a basement and features three bays. The front is constructed of sandstone ashlar, while the sides and rear are made of rubble. The roof is piended and platformed with slate. A band course runs along the ground floor of the front elevation, which also has a cornice and a stepped, fluted blocking course. The front elevation includes architraved windows at the ground floor, complete with aprons and consoled cornices, featuring a 12-pane timber sash and case glazing pattern, although some windows at the rear have been altered.

The front elevation has an advanced centre bay with a two-leaf panelled door set within a tripartite pilastered doorcase that includes sidelights and a segmental-arched astragalled fanlight. The doorpiece is made of keystoned and corniced ashlar, which replaced the original Ionic-columned doorpiece around 1930. The entrance is approached by steps that oversail the basement. There are single windows to the left and right at the basement, ground, and first floors, and a small flat-roofed addition to the left features a window and a corniced blocking course.

The rear elevation also has three bays with an advanced centre bay. A door on the ground floor is approached by steps, and there is a canted bay on the right that extends through both floors.

Inside, the villa has been remodelled, with a wide wooden stairwell dating from around 1920. The only intact room is the ground floor drawing room, which features a canted window, a cornice, and a notable Doric-columned chimneypiece made of figured marble.

The property is enclosed by a low boundary wall at the front, which includes some steel railings and two angle piers. High rubble-built boundary walls, which were formerly a sea wall to the south, surround the garden terraces and include steps and wrought-iron railings. The Ionic capitals that were once part of the front door are now used as garden ornaments.