Balcairn, 434-436 Blackness Road, Dundee

Circa 1885-90 Italianate Renaissance. 2-storey detached

villa, squared rubble with ashlar quoins. S front near-

symmetrical 3-bay, narrow centre bay within channelled

pilasters, small segmental pediment with sculptured tympanum

eaves, ground floor tripartite and arched keyblocked 1st

floor windows. Broad flanking bays, canted ground floor

window to left, projecting tripartite to right both with

pierced parapets, architraved tripartites over.

3-bay E and W elevations; porch on E with square pillar,

cast-iron mullioned window and pierced parapet. Windows

in architraves. Conservatory at W demolished. Modillioned

cornice and blocking course.

Rear U-plan service wings, E 2-storey and later single-

storey with concrete block walls. W part demolished, cut-back

rendered gable. Modern steps and porch to 1st floor flat,

partly blocked stair windows.

Sash and case windows, 2-pane glazing pattern.

Piended platformed slate roof, wall-head and ridge stacks.

Central cupola. Dormer to W.

INTERIOR: divided into flats, internal stair removed. Some

good plasterwork in principal rooms.

FORMER STABLE AND COACHHOUSE: single storey with gabled

hay loft. Blocked entrance, sliding door, wrought iron

finials. Rubble built boundary walls with chamfered

gatepiers and scalloped caps.