365 Blackness Road, Dundee

William Gauldie, 1924. Single storey and attic detached

villa, coursed rubble. Front broad central advanced gable

bay, with 3-window bow carried into attic, flanking lights.

coursed rubble with twin gables N and S, eaves cut back

originally bargeboarded; single gable to centre of E

Gable head harled with bold projecting broken cornice

treatment of eaves carried on stone console brackets. 2-window

frontage to Gray Street and looped bargeboarding, 2-light

window beneath at present enclosed by poster hoarding. Single

mullioned and timber transomed bow on left diamond-plan

stack to right of gable. 3-light timber mullioned and

storey waiting room extends to W, fronted by fine original

awning of 8 bays, open timber kingpost roof with S

transomed window to right. Small-paned glazing at centre

windows and at upper sections of transomed windows. Piended

rooflights carried on slim cast iron columns with T-plan

curvilinear bracket capitals, N third of roof boxed in with

slate roof with stacks and dormers on flanks. Decoratively

glazed windows in link to conservatory on left.

boarded ceiling, plain timber valance; 9th wider bay and

red and white brick w.c. block late 19th century addition,

Interior: small oak panelled hall with stone fireplace,

octagonal atrium with small light well.

awning originally extended several bays further W. Signal

box on Gray Street frontage at N platform, tall 3-storey

Low boundary walls. Cylindrical gatepiers with square caps.

structure, lower part vertically boarded, upper part

diagonally boarded within stop-chamfered timber frame, later cantilevered outshots and broad-eaved piended roof

with scalloped vallance. Lower part contains N end of stair

of enclosed platform overbridge, repositioned between the

station house and the signal box later 19th century when the

subway was formed, level crossing gates added and

subsequently replaced. Approaches to subway enclosed in

ramped glazed passages with roofs carried on ornamental

cast-iron brackets. Awning on N platform demolished 1960s.