Taymount, Albert Road, Dundee

Taymount is a villa dated 1862, designed by James MacLaren. It is a single and two-storey building with an attic, featuring an irregular plan and a gabled design. The construction uses snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, topped by a grey slate roof. A painted base course is visible, along with moulded string courses at the first floor level and wallhead. The windows are a mix of single and paired sashes with four panes, most framed by painted moulded architraves. Notable features include crowstep gables with bracketed skewputts, and decorative moulded stacks.

The east elevation showcases a painted entrance porch positioned at a re-entrant angle. It has a moulded door case and an open-work parapet with a sculpted heraldic shield on its left return. A recessed bay is located to the left side of the elevation, followed by two symmetrically arranged windows on the first floor. A shouldered wallhead stack with a heraldic date panel sits centrally, while an advanced gable stack with paired ground floor and first floor windows is to the right. A pedimented window punctuates the attic, and a further recessed bay, again with paired windows on both floors, completes the east side. A single-storey and attic service wing is situated at the outer right, featuring two windows and a dormer, connected to the main block by a short coped wall containing a moulded entrance door.

The south elevation is three-bay symmetrical. The central ground and first floor is defined by paired windows. Flanking these are slightly advanced gables, each consisting of two-storey, tripartite canted windows with open-work parapets and an attic window featuring a broken segmental pediment and a thistle motif lintel.

The west elevation consists of a main block on the right, with a central door that has a later porch and forestair. To the left, a steeply-pitched gable is advanced, featuring bipartite windows on both floors (with a later window added to the right) and an attic window with a quasi-pediment. A shouldered wallhead stack breaks through the eaves, incorporating a blank heraldic panel and three linked octagonal stacks. A bay at the far right features a window at first floor level, and decorative cast-iron snow catchers are present. To the left, a single-storey billiard room is situated. A central gable displays a partially blocked Venetian-type window; a seven-light dormer is above, and an octagonal gablehead stack sits to the left.

The north elevation displays single-storey outbuildings at ground floor level, with two asymmetrical gables and gablehead stacks relating to the main house.

The interior includes encaustic tiles, some stained glass windows in the porch, compartmentalised ceilings with decorative cornices and plasterwork, and some original fireplaces.

A circular-plan summerhouse, constructed from rubble with rusticated dressings, displays French Gothic architectural influences. It has bracketted eaves leading to a finialled conical roof covered in fishscale slates.

Two identical cast-iron ornamental lamp standards with missing lanterns are situated in the driveway.