Fern Hall Lodge, Dundee Road, West Ferry, Dundee

Fern Hall Lodge, located on Dundee Road in West Ferry, Dundee, was designed by Andrew Heiton around 1866. This single-storey lodge is built in an L-shape and features Gothic architectural details. The structure is made of snecked rubble masonry with painted dressings and has a slate roof.

The lodge includes a base course and a round entrance tower set within a re-entrant, topped with a conical roof and a painted doorpiece. It has long and short quoins, and the windows are 2-pane sash and case types with painted shoulder-arched and chamfered margins. Several windows are set in moulded pointed-arch panels that include quartefoils, hoodmoulds, and mask label stops. The building also features saw-tooth coping on the skews, gablet skewputts, and fleur-de-lis finials, as well as bracketted eaves, decorative cast-iron rainwater heads, cast-iron ridge brattishing, and moulded octagonal stacks at the ridge.

On the west elevation, the entrance tower is centrally located in the re-entrant. It features a doorway set in a pointed-arch panel, with a 2-leaf, 4-panelled bowed door and a shoulder-arched fanlight above. Nook shafts with foliate capitals, a hoodmould, and mask label stops are present, along with pointed-arch arrow-slit windows on either side. The eaves course is painted with a chevron moulding, and the conical roof is finished with square and fish-scale slates, topped with a weathervane finial. To the left, there is an advanced gable with a quadripartite canted window featuring a facetted roof. To the right, a recessed bay contains a bipartite window set in a pointed-arch panel and a gabled dormer head, with a similar window in the right return gable elevation.

The east elevation has three advanced gabled bays, with the center bay being slightly taller and containing a window, as well as stop-chamfered arrow-slit windows in the attic. There is a single-storey addition on the right side.

The north elevation features a slightly advanced gable at the center, with paired windows linked by hoodmoulds and a vesica in the attic. The flanking bays are blank and recessed.

Surrounding the lodge is a wall to the south with a bull-faced base course made of snecked rubble and saddleback coping. There are two plain capped gatepiers flanking a convex wall that is topped with railings.