Hermon Lodge Hotel And Conservatory, 48 Victoria Road, Dundee

Hermon Lodge Hotel and Conservatory is a French Gothic-style villa, largely dating from 1872-74, designed by Charles Edward and Thomas Saunders Robertson. An extension was added to the east in the early 19th century, and the conservatory was constructed in 1910 by Charles Stuart. The building is constructed of snecked rubble with painted dressings, featuring a bull-faced rubble base course. The windows are predominantly 2- and 4-pane sash and case, with stop-chamfered arrises, accompanied by jerkin-headed dormers. The steeply pitched piended roof is covered in grey slate with decorative cast-iron finials and flashings, and includes moulded and shouldered stacks.

The west elevation features an entrance porch to the right, accessed by steps with decorative cast-iron railings. The porch has a mannered angle-headed doorcase with colonnettes, foliate capitals, a chamfered consoled gable, and bargeboards. Elsewhere on the west elevation are a bipartite window to the right return, a two-window projection to the left with a bipartite window to its return, and a single window at the first floor. A slightly recessed bay on the left holds a ground and first-floor window and a dormer, while a single-story lean-to at the far left provides a window.

The south elevation showcases a three-bay, two-storey tripartie canted window at the centre, which slightly recesses at the first floor with a tall apsidal roof and a dormer. A similar arrangement is present at an advanced gable to the right. A large circular tower at the far left incorporates three windows on both the ground and first floors, a raised wallhead with timber brackets, a platformed conical roof with two dormers and decorative brattishing.

The east elevation is characterised by a conservatory to the left and a recessed service wing to the right.

The interior features Louis style decoration, including fine original chimneypieces, cornices, and a scale and platt staircase with cast-iron barley-sugar balusters. The stained-glass stair window has an unusual leaded pattern, while the billiard room is distinguished by full-height timber panelling and an ornamental chimneypiece. The conservatory retains its original cast-iron staging.

The conservatory itself is an imposing rectangular structure from approximately 1910, projecting from the east elevation. It has a masonry base, canted ends with French doors, round-headed windows, a cupola-roof with shaped glass, a raised ridge section with finials.

The site is enclosed by two circular-section ashlar gatepiers with corniced pyramidal copings. A round-coped rubble boundary wall runs along the south and west edges of the property.