Harecraig House, 26 Dundee Road, West Ferry, Dundee

Style of George Mathewson, circa 1835; canted window and dormers at S late 19th century; square window bay at S, Mills and Shepherd, 1905; pyramidal roofed addition to attic at N, Mills and Shepherd, 1911; dormers at service block W, window opened at W elevation ground floor right with French doors, window above and at E elevation 1st floor left, drawing room extended and chimneypiece installed by Charles G Soutar for himself, circa 1930. 2-storey, attic and partial basement, with 2-storey service block at rear, L-plan, villa. Harled whinstone rubble, slate roof, ashlar linked stacks. Margined angles; windows amainly 2- and 4-pane, and 12-lying-pane sash and case, some casements, chamfered margins; deep eaves.

E ELEVATION: advanced entrance porch off-centre, 2 round-headed windows (1 blocked), door at right return, saddleback skew gable with skewputts, heraldic shield and ball finial; lying-pane windows flanking at ground and 1st floors, casement at 1st floor left, sash and case elsewhere. Piended roof at left.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay, symmetrical. Advanced central bay; small bipartite basement window, bipartite at ground floor with hoodmould, single window at 1st floor, both 2-pane sash and case narrow round-headed window at attic with bars. Saddleback skew gable with skewputts and ball finial. Set-back bay at left; canted window at ground floor, single 2-pane sash and case at 1st floor. Set back bay at right, mostly addition of 1905; 2 small 6-pane windows at basement, bipartite with hoodmould at ground floor as centre bay, bipartite at 1st floor, both with wide reveal panels. 2 flat roofed canted dormers, piended roof.

W ELEVATION: 3-bay main block at right, symmetrical: 2 windows at ground floor, French doors at right with modern glazed porch; 3 windows at 1st floor, centre blind. Piended-roof at right, modern rooflight. Lower 2-storey, 2-bay service block at left; window with security bars at ground floor left, multi-pane door at right, 2 piended gable dormerheads with multi-pane metal casements; single storey lean-to at left.

N ELEVATION: 3-bay; set-back centre bay with stair window, corbelled attic storey with off-centre oriel window, single and double casements, pyramidal roof. Original gables at left and right with narrow round-headed attic windows. Single storey additions at ground floor.

INTERIOR: 3 delicate loop-traceried fanlights in hall and inner hall; boarded clockroom. Diningroom with marble, cast-iron and brass chimneypiece, flanking presses with decorative leaded glazing, decorative plaster cornice. Large timber and tiled chimneypiece in drawing room (see note). Well stair with decorative cast-iron balusters. Early chimneypieces in SE bedroom and attic; Art-Nouveau chimneypiece in attic (formerly Charles Soutar's workroom).

BOUNDARY WALL: coped and stepped rubble boundary wall at N, in part incorporating remains of coach house and stables.