St Helens, 474 Perth Road, Dundee

Charles Wilson, 1850, extended in twentieth century.

Vigorous Scots Baronial, 2-storey, ashlar villa. All gables

crowstepped with strapworked pediments to single light

windows at 1st floor. Most windows have roll-moulded

architraves. Continuous ground floor cill-course.

E elevation: Roman Doric columned portico with strapworked

parapet in advanced left gable. Single windows centre.

Advanced central 2-storey and attic gable, 3-light ground

floor window shallow advanced with stepped parapet. Attic

light flanked by corbelled turrets. Single storey and attic

wing to N with later dormer and advanced gable.

Tower: at re-entrant SW angle, corbelled out from circular

to square plan. Single lights at top stage, corbelled eaves,

pyramidal roof and weather-vane.

S elevation: advanced gabled bay to right, canted window

with strapworked parapet at ground floor. Projecting

northern bay vestibule with Venetian treatment, circled

windows over with swagged gabletheads.

W elevation: 2 advanced gables with ground-floor canted bays,

that at right with strapworked parapet. Centre altered stair

window.

Tall ashlar stacks with separate octagonal shafts.

Slate roofs, fish-scale at turrets. Sash and case windows,

2- and 4-pane glazing pattern, lying-panes to service wings.

2-storey harled addition at NW.

Rear 2-storey U-plan service ranges, with additions.

INTERIOR: subdivided but retains notable plasterwork,

mirrored overmantle.

LODGE: single storey, L-plan stugged ashlar, Crowstepped

gables, canted V-window to W. Crowstepped porch in re-entrant

angle with flat-roofed extension. Slate-hung addition to S.

Chamfered stacks, slate roofs. Windows sash and case, 2-pane

glazing pattern.

Ashlar gatepiers and stepped shouldered arched pedestrian

entrance with armorial. Boundary walls.