Broomhall, 3 Albert Road, Dundee

This is a substantial, irregular-plan Italianate villa, dated 1865 and attributed to the architect James McLaren. It is located at 3 Albert Road, Dundee. The villa is constructed of snecked sandstone rubble, with raised, chamfered quoins (tooled at the north side), and has a grey slate roof. The windows are mostly 2- and 4-pane sash and case, with moulded and painted architraves on the ground floor, and moulded, keystoned segmental arches without paint on the first floor. Decorative cast-iron window guards and rainwater goods are present, along with a dentilled eaves course, corniced and linked stacks, and piended roofs.

The east elevation, which serves as the main entrance front, is asymmetrical. A three-stage tower is advanced from the main house, slightly left of centre. A painted, open porch is at ground floor, featuring keystoned, round-headed arches and a banded pier, and is extended to the right by a single-story bay with a moulded cornice and band course. A window is located at the second stage of the tower, and a further window is set within the re-entrant angle (now with uPVC frames). A painted and sculpted name/date panel is to the left. The tower's third stage features bipartite windows with bracketed sills, topped by a deep, moulded and bracketed wallhead course and a flat-top pyramidal roof with brattishing and four angle weathervanes. A first-floor window has a balcony. On the ground floor to the right is a window, and above it, two bipartite and a single window. A service wing is situated at the far right, featuring a two-story canted window and windows on the ground and first floors.

The south elevation is three-bay and symmetrical, with a central bipartite window with a bracketed lintel and a segmental bipartite window with a balcony on the first floor. Slightly advanced bays are positioned on the left and right sides, each containing a keystoned tripartite canted window on the ground floor and a segmental tripartite window on the first floor.

The west elevation shows the main house on the right, with a corbelled chimney at first floor featuring a monogrammed panel. It has two bays to the left and one to the right, each with a window on the ground and first floors (a cast-iron balcony is present at the first floor). A single-story service block is located at the far left, featuring a door and four windows.

The north elevation consists of a single and two-story service block with various windows and doors, including an enclosed staircase leading to a former stair window.

A conservatory is attached to the east side, with a large ventilator ridge linked to the porch extension at the centre. A single-story billiard room adjoins the conservatory to the north, with coped skews and massive, mannered finials.

The interior has seen alterations, with the original staircase and chimney removed. Notable features include ornate plaster cornices, an encaustic tile floor in the hall extending to the conservatory and billiard room entrance, and a billiard room with pilasters, an ornate entablature, a Peterhead granite chimneypiece, and a coffered wagon ceiling with a fine stained glass rooflight depicting putti playing billiards.