Carolina House, 133 Broughty Ferry Road, Dundee

Carolina House, located at 133 Broughty Ferry Road in Dundee, was designed by William Chalmers and built between 1869 and 1870. This prominent building is a two-storey and attic structure with 11 bays, showcasing a French Renaissance style. It is constructed from snecked rubble, featuring painted ashlar quoins and dressings.

The street-facing elevation includes a single-storey and basement section with a two-storey central part. The entrance features a doorpiece with a curvilinear armorial above a recessed two-light arched window, which is inscribed with "Dundee Orphan Institution erected by Public Subscription 1870." On either side, there are round-arched keyblocked windows and two-bay projecting wings that have segmental arched windows, along with blind round-arched windows at the attic gables.

In the basement areas, there are conservatories; the one on the left has a brattished roof, while the one on the right is a 20th-century addition with a taller gabled centre.

The south elevation features an advanced three-storey, three-bay pavilion-roofed centre. The ground floor has a door with a tall arched stair window above it, and there is a stepped parapet topped with a ball finial. The flanking bays are canted at both the ground and first floors, with round-headed two-light windows that have curvilinear gablets above. The advanced segmental arched bipartite wings connect to three-bay links, which have small round-arched dormers, while the pavilion roofs have bipartite ashlar wallhead dormers, although those on the west have unfortunately been modernised.

The side elevations consist of four bays with segmental-arched bipartites and flanking single-storey service wings. The building has slate roofs with iron brattishing, which is missing from the platformed pavilions. At the centre, there is an octagonal fleche with a swept slate roof, now boarded, and the finial is missing.

The property is enclosed by a rubble-built boundary wall with cast and wrought-iron railings, which were erected following the widening of Broughty Ferry Road.