Mount Melville

Mount Melville is a building designed by Paul Waterhouse around 1905, showcasing a mix of Scots and French architectural features from the 16th century. The structure forms three sides of a courtyard and consists of a single storey with an attic. It is constructed from hammer-dressed rubble with polished ashlar dressings and chamfered margins. The central arch is composed of several orders and features a coat of arms above it, flanked by diagonal square turrets that include side lights.

The roofs are piended, sweeping into the angles of a tall pavilion roof over the gate, which is adorned with elaborate wrought-iron finials and a weathercock. The right side of the facade includes a door and two windows, with the right window being bipartite, as well as a two-light masonry dormer topped with a finial. The left side features a tripartite window, a bipartite window, a similar dormer, and a platformed dormer at a higher level. Diagonal corner buttresses enhance the structure's stability.

The roofs are pantiled and supported by shallow brackets, with crowstepped gables and central battered stacks. The courtyard is paved with setts and includes four garages, two doors, and car bays to the north, featuring a central crowstepped tripartite dormer and segment-headed ventilators. To the south, there are three garage doors and an L-plan double cottage with chamfered doors and small ground floor windows. The first floor has three pairs of dormer heads with ball finials, linked by oversailing arches.

The courtyard is enclosed to the east by a wall that has an arched door set in a gablet with a finial. The south range displays an external elevation with advanced crowstepped end gables and five inner gablets, with a bipartite window at the center. The north range features an external elevation that includes a left door at the first floor.