Royal Tay Yacht Club, Fort William, 34 Dundee Road

George Mathewson, circa 1838 with later alterations. 2-storey gabled block with single storey piended-roofed projecting wings over basement, formally planned classically detailed villa. Harled with painted margins, slate roof. Margined angles, some original 12-lying-pane sash and case windows, other single and 2-pane, bracketed eaves at 2-storey central bay, faceted roofs at flanking projecting bays, 4 vertically channelled stacks with moulded copes and identical octagonal cans on long north-south walls of central block.

S (MAIN) ELEVATION: 3-bay original building with later extension to right; basement with barred windows at canted bays, band course at principal floor level; central Ionic distyle loggia with decorative cast-ironwork and open-work parapet, window in flanking canted bays with single and 2-pane glazing, deep eaves, facetted roof. French doors at 1st floor with blind side lights toVenetian-style window.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced piend-roof porch to centre with sash and case window, door to left; flanking windows, blocked to right in wing.

N (ROAD) ELEVATION: projecting gabled centre with two 4-pane sash and case windows at principal floor centre, one 12-lying-pane at 1st floor; 1 inserted window in right wing.

INTERIOR: central hall with paired Ionic columns E and W, coffered dome with oculus. Stairs to basement resited and replaced in compatible style 1980s.

Rubble enclosing wall with rounded coping at N, hexagonal section panelled gatepiers with coulded caps. Retaining wall at S with doorway to right and stair leading down to lawn. To left: single storey flat-roofed addition extending to ground falling to S. Further walls at E and W.