Deanscourt, 42 Victoria Road, West Ferry, Dundee

Deanscourt is a villa dating from circa 1873, likely designed by Thomas Saunders Robertson or James MacLaren. It is a two-storey, square-plan building with three bays, accompanied by a single-storey service wing to the rear, forming a service court. The villa is constructed of evenly tooled sandstone with grey slate piended roofs. Architectural details include a base course, smooth rusticated angles, a moulded cill course at the first floor, and a dentil wallhead course. Round-headed windows with foliate capitals are prominent on the south and west elevations' right side, while other windows feature segmental arches with moulded architraves. These windows accommodate two-pane and four-pane sash and case frames, complemented by corniced stacks with uniform cans and cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets and hoppers.

The south elevation features a central, re-entrant porch with a keystoned round-headed arch, floriate pier capitals, and spandrels, along with similar windows on the left return, a cornice, and a plain parapet. A round-headed entrance door, a moulded doorcase, an eight-field panelled door, and a fanlight are also present; a single window sits above the door. An advanced bay to the right boasts a two-storey, four-light canted window with a moulded cornice and piended roof. A tripartite, slightly advanced window is recessed on the far left, accompanied by a cornice and a receding parapet, with paired windows at the first floor.

The west elevation showcases a slightly advanced bipartite window on the right and a single window at the first floor. To the left are two windows at ground and first floor levels, and a single-storey projection is located at the far left. The east elevation is symmetrically arranged with two windows at ground and first floor levels on the right, a single window at the first floor on the left, and a slightly recessed single-storey wing to the right with three barred windows. The north elevation features a single-storey service wing at ground floor and a tripartite, segmental-headed stair window.

The interior remains largely original, featuring an encaustic tile floor in the porch, a well staircase with turned and carved balusters, yellow marble chimneypieces in the dining room and the first-floor drawing room, and moulded cornices and ceiling roses.

Gatepiers and a boundary wall are also associated with the property. Five pyramidal-capped gatepiers line Victoria Road, comprising two rectangular and three octagonal piers with panelled hardwood quadrants and gates. Two further gatepiers are situated at Strathern Road. A round-coped rubble wall encloses the property to the north, south, east, and west.

A circa 1873 coach house, also attributed to Thomas Saunders Robertson or James MacLaren, is a single-storey, L-plan structure constructed of snecked rubble with a grey slate roof. It features four-pane sash and case windows, coped skews with skew blocks, and moulded stacks. The west elevation includes a door with a fanlight at the centre, flanking windows, an angle window in the re-entrant angle (formerly a door), and a window and coach house doors with a gabled hayloft above. The south elevation features a lean-to glass house on the right and a low projection at the far left.