9 Airlie Place, Dundee

Airlie Hall, located at 1 Airlie Place in Dundee, was built around 1846-1850 and features a simple classical symmetrical terrace that steps with the fall of the ground. Originally consisting of eight houses, the structure has two storeys with three-storey centre and end pavilions, and basements throughout its 24-bay length. The exterior is made of ashlar stone, with the ground level channelled leading to the centre and pavilions.

The centre pair of houses, numbered 7 and 9, are three-storey and three-bay in design, with their central paired architraved doorways altered to windows. The first floor has architraved and corniced windows, while the second floor features small square architraved windows. A main cornice runs along the top, and the roof is low and piended.

Houses numbered 3, 5, 11, and 13 are paired linking houses that are slightly set back, designed as two-storey with an attic and three bays. The ground floor includes round-arched windows with aprons and a band course, below two arched doorways, one of which has been altered to a window. The first floor has plain windows, with elaborate cast-iron balconies present only at Nos 3 and 5, and not over the doorways. The main cornice and balustrade are surviving features at Nos 3 and 5, along with four paired pedimented bipartite dormers. No 11 has been later raised by a storey and features flat-topped dormers.

The south pavilion, No 1, is a three-storey, three-bay structure with two bays, one of which is blind to Perth Road. It is detailed similarly to the central pair but includes a continuous elaborate cast-iron balcony on the first floor and a steep mansard French pavilion roof designed by C and L Ower for W L Boase in 1881, featuring oval dormers facing Perth Road and pedimented dormers towards Airlie Place. It also has decorated lead flashings and a one-storey round-arched addition to the east, added in 1881.

The north pavilion, No 15, has a similar original treatment to the south pavilion but features a plain doorway and a canted bay that rises through the ground and first floor. Its north gable is made of plain rubble, and it has a low piended roof. The slate roof includes corniced ridge stacks.

All windows are sash and case with a four-pane glazing pattern, except for the ground and first floors of No 15, which have later two-pane windows. Some basement windows have lying panes. Steps with good cast-iron rails are still present at the four remaining doorways, while four have been removed. A low garden wall completes the setting.