The Pines, 38 Seafield Road, Broughty Ferry

This is a mid-19th century villa, with a later extension and wing added in 1900 by C and L Ower. The house is an irregular design, built of stugged snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and a piended slate roof. A base course is present on the south and west sides, along with a lintel course at the porch. The building features single, bipartite, and canted windows with 4-pane and plate glass glazing, an oriel window at the porch, and some stained glass leaded lights. Window surrounds vary, including margins with moulded arrises, consoled margins with moulded stop-chamfers, and corniced detailing. Deep eaves have paired timber brackets, and cast-iron rainwater goods are present. Corniced stacks with decorative cans rise from the roof, with a gable at the west, and wallhead and shouldered details rising through the eaves, linked on the south side.

The west elevation has a wide, single-story entrance porch in the center and to the right, with a panelled door and a glazed, half-piended canopy supported by a decorative iron frame. There’s a consoled tripartite window to the left and a bipartite oriel to the right. A slim window is set into the chamfered angle, corbelled at the top and bottom, and capped with a flat roof featuring decorative cast-iron brattishing and angle finials. A window marks the original section of the building, and four windows are placed on the first floor. A later wing extends to the far left, incorporating a modern garage door constructed from three windows (with top lights remaining). A wide, half-piended dormerhead breaks through the eaves at the attic level.

The south elevation features a door at the center, formed from a cut-down window now masked by a modern conservatory, a bipartite window to the left with a moulded cornice and consoled cill, two windows on the first floor, and a two-story canted window to the right.

The east elevation has a bay to the left, a door (formerly to a conservatory) on the left, and a tripartite rectangular window to the right, re-entrant with a cornice and flat roof. There are two windows on the first floor and a stack. An advanced bay on the right has a further lean-to addition. The ground floor left return has two windows with security bars, and a bipartite window is located on the first floor.

The north elevation features advanced wings on the left and right, with the wing on the right being lower, and various doors and windows are present.

The interior, viewed only on the ground floor, retains some original fireplaces and decorative cornices. The study contains fine carved fitted bookcases, a mirrored door, and shutters. The staircase has been removed.

Gatepiers with ball finials, pyramidal caps, and chamfered ashlar construction flank modern wrought-iron gates, leading to low coped quadrants and two pyramidal-capped piers, adjoining a round-coped stugged and snecked rubble boundary wall that extends north, south, and east. A decoratively moulded cast-iron lampstandard, with a round base, four claw feet, and a chamfered ashlar base, stands nearby; it has a replacement lantern.