Vc House, Dunalistair Garden, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

Vc House, located at Dunalistair Garden in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was built around 1880 with additions made in 1985. This single-storey, single-bay building has a rectangular plan that forms an L-shape due to the extensions. Originally a billiard room for Dunalistair House, it is situated on sloping ground. The exterior features smooth coursers and bull-faced rustication at the basement, with channel-jointed quoins and a piended slate roof adorned with decorative wrought-iron finials. The windows are round-headed plate-glass sash and case types, and there is a glazed verandah on the west side. The building also has a dentilled entablature and a blocking course, along with a moulded round-section wallhead stack on the east side, and a modern wing added around 1984 at the northwest.

On the southeast elevation, there is a rusticated basement with a base course and a canted 5-light window featuring round-headed arches, painted architraves with pilasters, and Corinthian capitalled mullions. A balustraded parapet with moulded ball finials caps the structure.

The west elevation includes a painted string course, a blocking course, and a large rooflight, along with a lower 3-bay lean-to verandah supported by painted square-section columns that feature crown motifs and an inscribed plaque.

The east elevation is blind but has a central chimney breast that culminates in a prominent, tall round-section moulded and annuletted corniced stack.

Inside, the decoration is lavish, featuring a panelled timber dado, marbled pilasters with Corinthian capitals, and a dentilled entablature with consoles that support a large moulded cornice with an arched top-light. Much of this is concealed behind strapped walls and a false ceiling. There are richly carved timber door pieces on the north side, although there is a modern window frame that is out of character. The east side has a carved timber chimneypiece that projects from a moulded marble surround, with a ceramic tiled fireback and hearth. Two Corinthian columns on plinths are located on the south side, along with moulded timber at the mullions.

Additionally, there is a bull-faced coursed retaining wall with balusters, moulded coping, and an urn on the west side, as well as a similar adjoining wall at Dunalistair, which is listed separately.