Redcroft, 432 Blackness Road, Dundee

Leslie Ower, completed 1898. Large 2-storey red ashlar

Arts and Crafts house.

S elevation asymmetrical 3-bay, right bay advanced, 1-3-1

ground 1-4-1, light 1st floor window mock half-timbered

gable, 2 small windows with modern glazing. Ground floor

verandah to left, modern conservatory added at centre,

stained glass screen and slate roof with projecting eaves

also over advanced tripartite, at left. Single and bipartite

windows at 1st with gablet heads breaking eaves. Near

contemporary 1-storey W wing with canted bay and semi-

conical roof.

N and W elevations: steep swept gables, half-timbered at

attic level with bipartites, varied fenestration below.

Main entrance a timber porch in chamfered NW angle. Slightly

later W and E (service) wings. Stair window altered for

new outside stair and door to top flat.

Low 2-storey service wing at NE with piended dormers.

Windows mainly 9- or 12-pane upper sashes, single pane

lower. Gabled and piended red-tiled roofs with terracotta

finials. 4 prominent battered ashlar stacks.

Interior: original stair at 1st floor and attic survives.

Vestibule mosaic. Panelled hall ceiling, carved fireplaces.

Plaster cavetto ceilings in W wing (billiard room?).

Rubble-built boundary walls with cylindrical gatepiers

and conical caps.