365 Blackness Road, Dundee

The building at 365 Blackness Road, Dundee, is a detached villa designed by William Gauldie and built in 1924. It is a single-storey structure with an attic, constructed from coursed rubble. The front features a broad, central advanced gable bay, which incorporates a three-window bow extending into the attic, with flanking lights. The north and south sides have twin gables, with the eaves originally bargeboarded. The central gable head is harled and has a bold projecting broken cornice treatment supported by stone console brackets. The building presents a two-window frontage to Gray Street, with looped bargeboarding and a two-light window currently partially obscured by a poster hoarding.

A single mullioned and timber transomed bow window is located to the left, with a diamond plan and a stack to the right of the gable. A three-light timber mullioned and transomed waiting room extends to the west, fronted by a fine original awning of eight bays, featuring an open timber kingpost roof and a transomed window to the right. Small-paned glazing is found in the centre windows and the upper sections of the transomed windows. The roof is piended, with rooflights carried on slim cast-iron columns featuring T-plan curvilinear bracket capitals. A section of the north roof is boxed in with slate and includes stacks and dormers on the flanks. Decoratively glazed windows are present in the link to a conservatory on the left.

Internally, there is a small oak-panelled hall with a stone fireplace, and an octagonal atrium incorporating a small light well. The awning originally extended further west. A signal box is situated on the Gray Street frontage to the north, connected to a tall, three-storey structure. Low boundary walls are present. Cylindrical gatepiers with square caps define the boundaries.

A late 19th-century red and white brick w.c. block stands to the rear. A boarded ceiling and plain timber valance are also featured; the ninth wider bay is of particular note. The building's setting is further defined by a later 19th-century enclosed platform overbridge, a level crossing with gates (since replaced), and approaches to the subway enclosed within ramped glazed passages supported by ornamental cast-iron brackets. The awning on the north platform was demolished in the 1960s. A signal box on Gray Street frontage connects to a tall, three-storey structure; the lower part of this is vertically boarded, the upper part diagonally boarded within a stop-chamfered timber frame. Later cantilevered outshots and a broad-eaved piended roof with scalloped valance finish the structure.