Stirling House, Craigiebarn Road, Dundee

Conversion by Percy Freeman and Gilbert F M Ogilvy (London), 1910 of former stable offices to Craigie House, James MacLaren, circa 1860. 2-storey, U-plan, 17th century Scots-style house. Sandstone rubble, ashlar dressings with droved margins, grey slate roof. Multi-pane metal casement and 12-pane timber sash and case windows; semi-circular dormerheads at S, piended at N; coped stacks; cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers at E.

W ELEVATION: timber porch at centre treated as masonry with channel join ting, pilaster strips and frieze extending to main elevation, round-paned rectangular fanlight, wrought-iron parapet; windows at left and right main elevation, single flanked by paired windows at 1st floor; projecting gable at left with 2 windows at 1st floor and gablehead stack, projecting gable at right with window at ground and 1st floor, bracketted lantern at each gable.

S ELEVATION: French doors with windows flanking, further window at left; 3 dormerheads.

E ELEVATION: 3 gables, 6 windows at ground floor, 5 at 1st; single storey bay at right with 23 windows.

N ELEVATION: single storey projection at left with door at re-entrant, 3 windows at right, dormerhead at 1st floor.

INTERIOR: some original chimneypieces and door furniture; fictive timber panelling in dining room with original sanctuary-type lamp.

WALL IN GARDEN: convex rubble wall with rounded coping in garden at E.