Wardlaw Hall, Kennedy Gardens, St Andrews

Wardlaw Hall, located in Kennedy Gardens, St Andrews, was designed by John Milne and completed in 1865. This large, asymmetrical, multi-gabled Scots Baronial house stands three storeys high and features one- and two-storey wings, along with a prominent five-stage tower that has a corbelled and crenellated parapet. The building is constructed from bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar margins. Notable architectural elements include crowstepped gables, corbelled conical-roofed turrets, canted bay windows, and stone dormerheads, as well as moulded architraves around the windows.

On the east elevation, the advanced round tower transitions to a square shape at the top stage and features a tall two-leaf, eight-panel timber door with a roll-moulded architrave. There is a decorative armorial panel dated 1865 on the second stage, flanked by architraved windows. The tower has single central windows on the third and fourth stages, with the top stage displaying a central star emblem below the corbel course, a turret at the southwest corner, and a stepped parapet. To the right, there is a three-storey recessed crowstepped gabled bay, and further right, a two-bay section with an outer bay that has a pedimented dormerhead breaking the eaves. A corbelled conical turret is located at the northeast corner. To the far left, a recessed one- and two-storey wing includes a later lean-to glasshouse with decorative multi-pane glazing, a conical-roofed tower, and a single crowstepped gabled bay.

The windows are a mixture of eight-pane and plate glass timber sash and case styles with horns. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, while the conical roof turrets feature graded grey fishscale slates. Some gable stacks are made of ashlar and have coped tops with cans. The building also includes cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, as seen in 2007, the hall has been altered to serve as a residence for students of St Andrews University. The ground floor features a principal common room with a simple timber and tile chimneypiece, a six-panel timber door, and decorative plaster cornices and ceilings. A vaulted central corridor leads to a fine quality timber staircase with turned balusters and timber handrails.

The boundary walls include a low coped sandstone section that curves inwards to the east, incorporating bull-faced square-plan chamfered gatepiers with moulded caps.