West House, 102 Hepburn Gardens, St Andrews

West House, located at 102 Hepburn Gardens in St Andrews, is a large Arts & Crafts villa built by Mills & Shepherd between 1906 and 1907, with additions and alterations made by the same architects in 1911 and 1926. The building features a distinctive L-plan layout and a two-stage polygonal re-entrant entrance tower. It is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone rubble, with some ashlar margins, and has casement windows. The roof is piended, and there is a timber cavetto eaves cornice.

The northern elevation, which faces the entrance, showcases the re-entrant entrance tower with a round-arched two-leaf timber door, flanked by narrow round-arched windows. To the left, there is a two-bay section that includes a tall stair window. Further left is a three-bay extension from 1926, which features a round-arched entrance pend leading to the garden. A projecting wing with a lower piended roof is positioned at right angles to the entrance tower.

On the southeastern garden elevation, there is a central projecting five-light bay window that includes an integral entrance porch with a deeply set part-glazed two-leaf door and a swept leaded roof. Above this, a canted oriel window partly breaks the eaves cornice, accompanied by a central four-light piended dormer. The elevation also has widely spaced single bays on either side, and to the right, a billiard room extension from 1926 features a round-arched pend, an oriel window, and a lean-to glasshouse.

The villa predominantly has small pane timber casement windows, some of which include timber mullions and transoms. The red tile roof has weathered to a grey-green color, and there is a variety of tall ridge and gable stacks, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the ground floor rooms exhibit a good decorative scheme, including a near full-height timber panelled hall with an integral timber chimneypiece and a turned baluster gallery. The principal rooms feature fine timber panelling and moulded cornices, incorporating simple timber chimneypieces with tiled inserts.

The boundary walls and gatepiers to the north along Hepburn Gardens consist of a semicircular coped section of wall that curves inward to form integrated gatepiers with moulded caps.