Belsize House, 1 Belsize Road, West Ferry, Dundee

Circa 1910; addition at E circa 1950; further large addition by Thoms and Wilkie 1973. Single storey, 2-storey and attic, irregular-plan Arts and Crafts villa. Harled, slate roof. Some transomed and mullioned windows with leaded panes at S and W, other multi-pane timber casements, flat-roofed dormers; deep sweeping eaves with plain bargeboards, ashlar-coped and moulded stacks with terracotta cans.

N ELEVATION: integral entrance porch off-centre flanked by windows, blank bay at right, 2 dormers in swept roof above; projecting stair gable at left with window; wide recessed bay at far left with door, back-stair window and various other windows, dormer and rooflights; later additions in sympathetic style at outer left.

W GABLE: 2-storey canted window at right with piended roof, large window at ground floor left, smaller window at 1st.

S ELEVATION: off-centre advanced gable with window at ground and 1st floor set in recessed round-headed panel, windows at ground and 1st floor right return and 1st floor left return; bay at right with window at 1st floor, 2 dormers; modern additions at far and outer right; further advanced single storey gable at left re-entrant (1986) with large segmental window and window at left return; 2 round-headed windows at far left, 3 windows at 1st floor, dormer.

INTERIOR: wide-boarded outer hall with cove ceiling, panelled inner hall with half-timbered ceiling leading to scale and platt staircase with barley-sugar balusters; fielded panelling in dining room, ashlar chimneypiece and metal hood.

LAMP STANDARD: wrought-iron Arts and Crafts-type lamp standard.

GATEPIERS: 2 rendered and lined gatepiers with bulbous ashlar caps, 'Belsize' inscribed at S gatepier.