Vernonholme, Riverside Drive, Dundee

David Baxter (Johnston and Baxter) dated 1910. Large 2-storey

villa, ashlar W and S elevations, snecked rubble E and N

elevations. Chanelled angles. Lugged architraves and

keystones to windows with linking sill courses.

W elevation symmetrical 7-bay, advanced central loggia,

triple arcade on double Roman Ionic columns, marble shafts.

Heavy consoled balustraded balcony. Canted oriel over.

Flanking ground floor advanced square bays, tripartite with

single light returns, balustrade. Single lights to side

and over. Dentil cornice. Twin banded ashlar stacks.

S elevation symmetrical 4-bay, end advanced with canted

bipartites through both floors. Centre tripartites, 1 a

French window. Garden balustrade links advanced end bays.

Central steps with dies. Dentil cornice. Banded ashlar stacks.

E elevation 5-bay, single lights and 1 corniced tripartite,

formerly a French window. 2nd windows from left,

beneath wallhead stack, are new insertions without architraves.

Lower 2-storey service wing with plain windows, massive

banded ashlar stack in re-entrant. Large modern extension.

Rear U-plan, court enclosed by single-storey block with

louvred ventilator. Stepped 3-light arched stair window.

Other windows plain.

Piended and platformed slate roofs. Sash and case windows,

2-pane glazing pattern.

INTERIOR: fine timber stair with stained glass window and

timber arcaded landing. Principal rooms have low-relief

plaster ceilings, 1 initialled and dated. Oak panelled

boardroom with oak Ionic chimneypiece. Also carved oak

chimney piece inscribed 'East West Hame's Best'. Some

rooms partitioned for offices.

GARAGE, near contemporary with the house, timber framed

on coursed rubble base. Timber sliding doors, fixed windows.

Roof half glazed and half slated.

LODGE by David Baxter 1910, ashlar, details similar to

main house 1-storey L-plan with pyramidal roofed porch

in re-entrant. Canted lights to gables. Piended swept

slate roofs. Wallhead stacks.

5 square-section GATEPIERS, 3 channelled with highly ornate

consoled finials, 2 plain capped piers. Low boundary walls.