Conservatory, Inveravon, Ellieslea Road, Dundee

Inveravon is a two-storey and basement villa built in 1877 by architects James MacLaren and George Shaw Aitken. It features a rectangular plan and is constructed from snecked and random sandstone rubble, with ashlar quoins and dressings, and a grey slate roof. The villa has a base course, continuous hoodmoulds on the first floor of the south and west elevations, and a wallhead course. It includes plate glass sash and case windows, with chamfered mannered architraves and moulded lintels on the ground floor, and elliptical-arched windows on the first floor. The property also has cast-iron rainwater goods with some decorative hoppers, stacks with plinths, corniced copes, and decorative cans, as well as a conservatory on the east side.

The west elevation is asymmetrical with four bays. The entrance porch is located at the second bay from the left and features angle piers and pilasters, a ribbed semi-ogival leaded roof with cast-iron brattishing, and a moulded elliptical-arch doorway with two-leaf panelled doors that have a wheel-glazing pattern at the top. There is a blank heraldic panel on the first floor, a bay with a window on the ground floor, a bipartite window on the first floor to the left, and paired windows on both the ground and first floors to the right, with a single window at the far right on both floors.

The south elevation is symmetrical with three bays. It has tripartite windows at the centre, paired windows on the first floor each with cast-iron balconies on corbelled cills, a two-storey canted window on the left with a facetted roof and finial, and a tripartite projecting window on the right with a parapet, also tripartite on the first floor.

The north elevation has been considerably altered with the addition of an external stair, porch, and windows.

Inside, the villa retains original plasterwork in the hall and principal rooms, a canopied marble chimneypiece in the hall, and a well stair with turned softwood balusters and a stained glass ceiling light.

The east-facing conservatory has a waggon roof and projects out with a raised gabled ventilator ridge, finial, and brattishing.

The property is enclosed by a round-coped rubble wall on the west side, with three offset chamfered ashlar gatepiers that have mannered caps and wrought-iron gates.