Dunalistair, Hill Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

Mid 19th century, perhaps enlarged from ealier house. 2-storey, basically rectangular-plan, large Italianate villa. Buff sandstone coursers, painted dressings, grey slate roof. Base course, band course at 1st floor level (dentilled and moulded at entrance porch, w elevation), bracketted cornice and blocking course; margined angles, painted at ground floor W elevation; keystoned, moulded round-headed arches at entrance porch; 2 tripartite and one 5-light canted window at ground floor with pilaster strip margins and colonnette mullions, foliat e capitals and moulded round arched lights with moulded, dentilled corni cen and patera frieze corbelled, moulded and shouldered architraves at 1 1st floor main elevations, mostly plate glass sash and case glazing; pro minent single and paired channelled, corniced and bracketted stacks; pla tform and peinded roofs.

W ELEVATION: round-headed, keystoned and cavetto-moulded doorpiece with pilasters and festooned brackets at centre return of advanced 2-bay entrance porch, new door formed from window at right, open arch at right and right return, traceried at left, paterae at spandrels, two 4-pane wi dows at 1st floor flanking regimental badge of the Black Watch, blank ar chitraved oculus at right return; bay at main elevation at left with cor niced bipartite window at ground floor, window at 1st, bay at right with round-headed bipartite at ground floor, 2 windows at 1st.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay block recessed at centre with door formed from window at left, 2 windows at right, 3 at 1st floor, distyle, flat-roofed doric portico projecting at ground floor; bay at left with 5-light canted win dow at ground floor rising to bipartite with side windows at 1st; bayat right with advanced central bay, tripartite window at ground floor, bipa rtite at 1st.

E ELEVATION: slightly advanced 2-bay block at left with 2 round-headed windows at ground floor, 2 windows at 1st; slightly lower 4-bay block at right with 4 bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor.

N ELEVATION: blank gables at left and right, various doors and windows including stair window.

INTERIOR: some richly moulded ceilings and cornices, and original chimneypieces. Well stair with carved newel posts and cast-iron balusters, border-glazed stained and etched glass stair window.

FORMER SERVICE WING: immediately to the N and formerly attached to main house. 2-storey, single and bipartite windows with painted margins, piended roof.

RETAINING WALL AND BALUSTRADE: bull-faced coursed retaining wall at S with coped ashlar panels and balusters, extending to VC House (listed separately) at E.