Cidhmore House, 488 Perth Road, Dundee

Dated 1868. Large Italianate villa, ashlar with polished

dressings and quoins. Most margined windows with moulded

stilted segmental-heads and small keystones. Continuous

1st floor cill course, bracketted eaves.

E elevation: near centre bay advanced with wide Doric

columned and square piered porch. Triglyph entablature.

Consoled pedimented doorpiece. Bipartite over. 3 bays to

each side, 1- and 2-lights to right, 2 single windows to left

flanking ground floor scalloped niche and 1st floor dated

armorial.

S elevation: 5 bay, end bays advanced with canted ground

floor and tripartite 1st floor windows. 3 ground floor

consoled corniced and aproned windows at centre.

W elevation: 6-bay, 3 at left recessed. Right canted bay,

bipartite over, twin corniced round-headed lights. 2

windows altered to doors.

Rear, single storey, heightened to 2. Round-headed dormers

break eaves to E and W, gabletted to N.

Wallhead and ridge stacks with 2, 3 and 4 square shafts

and bracketted cornices. Piended slate roofs. Later small

dormers.

Sash and case windows, 2-pane glazing pattern.

INTERIOR: tiled vestibule. Fine plaster ceilings with

original paintwork and gliding in principal ground floor

rooms. Ornate timber stair, 3-light stained glass window

with putti. 1st floor partitioned. Most fireplaces removed.

LODGE: similarly detailed masonry, L-plan with porch

re-entrant angle on banded square piers. Round-headed

bipartites to street, canted bays to W and S. Bracketted

eaves, square shafted stack, piended roof. Sash and case

windows. Low boundary walls and altered gatepiers.