Bartley Lodge, 81 Monifieth Road, Dundee

Bartley Lodge is an Italianate villa, likely designed by James MacLaren and built in 1858. It is a two-story building with an irregular plan, comprising two main bays. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble stone with pinnings, painted margins, long and short quoins, stone mullions, and a slate roof with painted, coped stacks. The south elevation features two-pane sash and case windows, while the east elevation has four-pane windows on the first floor and original lying-pane windows elsewhere. A continuous hoodmold with label stops adorns the first floor windows on the south and west elevations. Deep eaves display exposed purlins, gables, and a piended roof. An impost band course runs along the first floor above the round-headed windows.

The west elevation, which serves as the entrance front, features a single-story rectangular porch in a re-entrant angle, supported by three piers with a coped base and a bracketed lead roof. A slightly advanced gabled bay at the center has paired bipartite windows on the ground floor and paired round-headed bipartites on the first floor. A lower block to the left incorporates a central bipartite window and flanking single windows, with similar round-headed windows above. A piended roof with a ridge stack is on the left.

The south elevation is multi-gabled, with a margined arrow slit at ground floor center and a blind heraldic shield above it on the first floor. A four-light bow window with chamfered margins and a bracketed, shallow-pitched lead roof is located on the ground floor to the left, while a tripartite window with a corbelled cornice above the lintel (potentially originally supporting a balcony) is situated to the right. A tripartite round-headed window is on the first floor to the left, with a bipartite window to the right.

The east elevation consists of a main block on the left, featuring two large single windows on the ground floor and three smaller windows on the first floor, with a piended roof to the right. A lower, two-story service block is positioned on the right, containing a door and window on the ground floor and two windows on the first floor, topped with a piended roof and a wallhead stack at the return. A single-story larder adjoins the far right, complete with a louvred ventilator at the apex of its piended roof. The north elevation features a round-headed stair window to the main block, flanked by advanced wings.

The garden at the east includes a timber summer house, and a cast-iron lamp standard with a lantern stands on the south side.

The interior features a geometric encaustic tile floor in the vestibule, alongside a moulded segmental-arched doorway with a consoled pediment displaying heraldic and foliate decoration. The drawing room contains an inlaid timber chimneypiece and moulded cornices, while the dining room has a painted marble, classical chimneypiece and moulded cornices. A dog-leg staircase is fitted with cast-iron balusters. In the southwest bedroom is an Adam style painted timber chimneypiece incorporating a decorative circa 1900 cast-iron all-night burner inscribed ‘The Eagle Governor grate (all night burner) by Royal Letters Patent.’ A hand-pump is located in the service wing at the rear.

A coped rubble wall runs along Monifieth Road on the south side. Two rock-faced gatepiers with pyramidal caps support a gateway featuring a keystoned round-headed arch and a timber door, side panels, and tympanum.