Hermitage House, 6 Hermitage Road, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

Hermitage House, located at 6 Hermitage Road in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, is a Jacobean style villa designed by James MacLaren around 1850. The building is two stories with a basement and has a mostly rectangular plan, featuring single-storey projections at the rear. It is constructed of ashlar stone with rubble masonry at the back, and has margined angles and a slate roof. The villa includes a base course, a cill course at the first floor, and skew gables with corbelled skewputts. The windows are primarily 12-pane sash and case types with chamfered reveals, and there are tall polygonal chimney stacks with decorative cans, grouped on a moulded base and corbelled at the gable head to the west.

On the west elevation, there are two bays. The entrance porch is positioned to the left and features piers and a parapet, although the door has been blocked and replaced with a window. To the right, a modern extension conceals a bipartite window with a hoodmould. The first floor has two symmetrically placed windows, each with hoodmoulds.

The south elevation is three bays wide. The center features a window on both the ground and first floors, while a slightly advanced gable on the left has a projecting bipartite window at the ground floor with 4-pane sash and case glazing, and a parapet carrying a hoodmould. Above, there is a window at the first floor with a gabled hoodmould and a blank shield panel at the gable. The outer right has a narrower advanced gable with a canted window at the ground floor and a window at the first floor with a similar hoodmould.

On the east elevation, there are windows at both the ground and first floors on the right side. The center features a chimney breast, and there is a door with painted margins, along with an off-set window at the first floor.

The north elevation has a stair window that has been converted into a door at the first floor, with a forestair leading to a single-storey gabled projection in the outer bays. There are also two asymmetrically placed wallhead stacks.

Surrounding the property, there is a terrace wall to the north and enclosing walls to the east and west. The ashlar gatepiers at Hermitage Road are topped with moulded pyramidal urn finials.