West House, 102 Hepburn Gardens, St Andrews

Mills & Shepherd, 1906-07. Additions and alterations by Mills & Shepherd 1911 and 1926 (see Notes). Large 1- and 2-storey L-plan Arts & Crafts villa with distinctive 2-stage polygonal re-entrant entrance tower. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble with some ashlar margins. Casement windows. Timber cavetto eaves cornice. Piended roof.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: N (entrance) elevation: re-entrant entrance tower with round-arched 2-leaf timber door flanked by narrow round-arched windows. To left; 2-bay section including tall stair window. To far left; 1926 3-bay extension with round-arched entrance pend to garden. At right angles to entrance tower, lower piended roofed projecting wing.

SE (garden) elevation: central projecting 5-light bay window with integral entrance porch with deep set part-glazed 2-leaf door and swept leaded roof. Canted oriel window above partly breaks eaves cornice (central 4-light piended dormer). Flanking widely-spaced single bays. To right, 1926 billiard room extension with round-arched pend, oriel window and lean-to glasshouse.

Predominantly small pane timber casement windows some with timber mullions and transoms. Red tile roof now weathered to grey/green. Variety of tall ridge and gable stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: good decorative scheme to ground floor rooms. Near full-height timber panelled hall with integral timber chimneypiece and turned baluster gallery. Fine timber panelling and moulded cornices to principal rooms incorporating simple timber chimneypieces with tiled inserts.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: to N (Hepburn Gardens). Semicircular coped section of wall curving inwards to form integrated gatepiers with moulded caps.