Stable And Bothy, Duncarse House, 381 Perth Road, Dundee

Duncarse House Annexe, located at 381 Perth Road, Dundee, is a large, two-storey Italianate villa built in 1858 by Charles Wilson, with extensions around 1860 and 1872 by James MacLaren. The villa is constructed of ashlar and features continuous ground and first-floor cill courses. Most first-floor windows are framed by pilasters, except for the canted bays.

The south elevation has seven bays; the end bays are canted. The centre five windows on the ground floor have architraves and cornices, while the third and fifth windows have decorative blind balustrades above. A mutule cornice tops the wall, leading to a parapet with recessed panels above the canted bays.

The west elevation has two ground-floor canted bays with pierced parapets and tripartite windows above, set above a central single light.

The north elevation incorporates a porch, extended in 1872 and enclosed by an unusual conservatory. The conservatory has slim ashlar piers and cast-iron columns, a consoled and pedimented entrance with urn finials, and marble bosses. A tripartite window lights the stair, with upper pilasters and cornice, and an armorial above. A lower, two-storey, three-by-two-bay wing was added around 1860, with a plain ground floor and pilastered windows on the first floor. The eaves have a cornice, there are twin end stacks, and the roof is in an 'M' shape.

The east elevation consists of four bays with a single window. Shouldered stacks are present, along with a lower wing to the north. A two-bay conservatory was originally present on ashlar angle pilasters but has been altered with rendered walls, new windows, and an 'M' roof.

The roof is piended and covered in slate, with ashlar stacks. The windows are mainly sash and case with a four-pane glazing pattern.

The interior retains some original features, including good plasterwork cornices and ceiling roses in the principal rooms, cast-iron stair balusters, a clerestory light, a notable encaustic tiled fireplace, and iron whippet fireguards.

An Annexe, dated 1874 and located at 2C Hazel Drive, is a two-storey, asymmetrically gabled ashlar building. It features a central segmental-arched doorway and three- and four-segmental mullioned lights at ground level. Large one- and two-light segmental arches are on the first floor, with a louvred oculus in the gable. Similar two-light gabled side elevations have square gable-end stacks. The rear of the annexe has been heightened and rendered, with altered ground-floor glazing and cross casement windows on the first floor with a multi-pane glazing pattern. The interior has been altered.

A stable and bothy, located at 4 Hazel Drive and dating to 1858, is constructed of ashlar and coursed rubble up to the lane. It originally included a two-storey hayloft, a stable, and a house. A single-storey timber-trussed cart-shed with an 'M' roof was also present. The building was converted into a house in 1995.

An ice-house and larder are set into a bank to the southeast of the house, featuring an L-plan rubble-built retaining wall with two blocked doors.

The lodge at Perth Road is a two-storey ashlar building with margined windows and a ground floor lintel band course. First-floor windows break overhanging, bracketed eaves. Central and wallhead stacks are present, and it has a piended slate roof. It has sash and case windows with lying-pane glazing.

Small corniced gatepiers are located on the lane to the east. The boundary walls are rubble-built, with brick-lined sections for a former greenhouse to the north, and the central garden wall carries cast- and wrought-iron railing.