Clement Park, Lochee, Dundee

Clement Park, built in 1854 by James MacLaren and completed by 1862, is a large, asymmetrical Jacobean mansion located in Lochee, Dundee. It includes a single-storey service block that encloses a courtyard. The building is constructed of ashlar.

The south elevation features a central, shallow segmental-arched porch with a pierced parapet. Behind the porch is a four-stage square-section tower with buckled angle quoins and cusped triple lights at the third floor. The tower has a pierced parapet with angle dies and a stack to the west. A turnpike stair with a castellated parapet projects from the northeast angle. To the west of the tower are three bays, the ground floor of which features an advanced triple light with a pierced balcony, a bipartite window, and a gablet with a pierced parapet and urn finials. A canted window rises through two floors with a ball-finialled parapet.

Around 1860, an addition was made to the east of the tower consisting of a deeply recessed bay with a first-floor tripartite window. A ground-floor conservatory features cast-iron and ashlar mullions, with a cusped and gabled central light, from which the finial is missing. A large, curvilinear gabled bay extends to the east, featuring a ground-floor canted window with five arched lights, a triple light above with a worn stepped hood mould, gargoyles squatting on the cusps of a shaped gable, and an open-worked finial.

The west elevation is two-and-a-half storeys and seven bays, with primarily single-light windows. An advanced three-storey gabled bay is located third from the left, with a pierced parapet to the right. A corbelled cast-iron balcony links two first-floor windows. There are three wallhead stacks, one gabled, and three gabletted dormers. A three-storey tower at the northeast corner has a French pavilion and iron brattishing. A northwest wing was added in 1935 to accommodate married patients.

The east elevation presents a two-storey slightly advanced gable with ground floor triple round-headed lights, two bipartites above. A gabled wallhead is present with an apex stack. A modern basement stair is visible, and a single-storey wing sits to the right with a large window inserted beneath a shaped gablet. A bipartite and castellated canted bay is situated to the right, alongside a gabled arched entrance to the courtyard.

The courtyard is enclosed by a single-storey north service range with a rubble-built north elevation. Gabled wallhead stacks are located behind the main blocks. A projecting stair has triple arched lights, a pediment, an oculus, and a ball finial. The building is topped with slate roofs, and features sash and case windows with two and four-pane glazing patterns.

Former stables were once enclosed by castellated stepped boundary walls and entered via square gatepiers, but the stable buildings have been demolished. A balustraded garden wall is located to the front of the house, with a central advanced section.

The interior includes a timber strapworked stair, an ornate hall chimneypiece, and cast-iron stair balusters in the west wing. Ornate plasterwork, in a 17th-century style, adorns the principal rooms, while the nursery features a Robin Hood ceiling rose. Stained glass is present on the stair, and etched glass in the drawing room repeats the JC and CC motif, believed to represent James and Clementina Cox.