Including Gatepiers And Gate, Oakdene, Tamfourhill Road

Circa 1894. 3-bay, 2-storey, rectangular-plan villa (later divided into 2 flatted dwellings); Scots Baronial detailing to principal elevation. Bull-faced and heavily tooled, coursed and snecked sandstone ashlar to principal elevation; random sandstone rubble to sides and rear. Projecting, chamfered basecourse; smooth ashlar quoins; moulded cornice; crowstepped gables and dormers with moulded skewputts; smooth ashlar window margins with roll-moulded reveals to principal elevation.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced, crowstepped, gabled bay to right with jettied corners; canted, 4-light bay window at ground floor; simple rectangular banded cornice above central windows; overhanging gabled corners above sidelights. Bipartite window at 1st floor with cable-moulded string course, machicolated bartizans and corbels, stone ball finial. Central segmentally-pointed arched doorway, splayed architrave, cable-moulded, pointed-arch hoodmould; small rectangular window to above. Bi-partite ground floor window to left; cable-moulded, stepped hoodmould, incorporating plain ashlar plaque centrally above window; gabled breaking-eaves, crowstepped dormer above, ball finial. Rounded left corner to ground floor; shallow curved corbel at mid-height. Single storey lean-to garage recessed to far right.

W ELEVATION: wide crowstepped gable. Door to far left; 1st floor window with projecting cill to far left; later 20th century, flat-roofed brick extension further to left.

N ELEVATION: window to ground floor left. Late 20th century, single storey brick extensions to remaining ground floor. Tall, central round-arched, leaded glass stair window to 1st floor.

E ELEVATION: wide crowstepped gable. Single storey, 20th century, rubble-built garage to foreground. External brick and concrete stair leading to late 20th century, timber panelled doorway at 1st floor, off-centre right; window to far right.

Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows with horns. Pitched roofs; grey slates; corniced ashlar stacks; circular and octagonal clay cans.

INTERIOR: access not obtained, 2004

GATEPIERS AND GATE: pair of smooth, square-plan ashlar gatepiers; projecting, splayed bases; 2 rectangular-banded recesses to heads, slightly splayed, piended caps. Decorative wrought-iron gates with floral design, plain ball-finialled railings.