Fern Hall Lodge, Dundee Road, West Ferry, Dundee

Andrew Heiton, circa 1866. Single storey, L-plan, Lodge with Gothic details. Snecked rubble masonry, painted dressings, slate roof. Base course; round entrance tower set in re-entrant with conical roof, painted doorpiece; long and short quoins; 2-pane sash and case windows with painted shoulder-arched and chamfered margins, several set in moulded pointed-arch panels with quartefoils, hoodmoulds and mask label stops; saw-tooth coping to skews with gablet skewputts and fleur-de-lis finials; bracketted eaves; decorative cast-iron rainwater heads; cast-iron ridge brattishing, moulded octagonal stacks at ridge.

W ELEVATION: entrance tower at centre re-entrant; doorway set in pointed-arch panel; 2-leaf 4 panelled and bowed door, shoulder-arched fanlight, nook shafts with foliate capitals, hoodmould and mask label stops, pointed-arch arrow-slit windows flanking. Painted chevron-moulded eaves course, conical roof with square and fish-scale slates and weathervane finial. Advanced gable at left; Quadripartite canted window with facetted roof. Recessed bay at right; bipartite window in pointed arch panel and gabled dormerhead, similar window in right return gable elevation.

E ELEVATION: 3 advanced gabled bays, centre slightly taller with window, stop-chamfered arrow-slit windows at attic. Single storey addition at right.

N ELEVATION: slightly advanced gable at centre; paired windows, linked hoodmoulds, vesica at attic. Blank recessed flanking bays.

WALL AND GATEPIERS: wall at S with bull-faced base course, snecked rubble, saddleback coping. 2 plain capped gatepiers, flanking convex wall with railings.