Dunvarlich, Taybridge Drive, Aberfeldy

Dunvarlich is a villa dating from around 1900, likely designed by T Duncan Rhind. It is a two-story, three-bay building with a distinctive swept roof, demonstrating fine architectural detailing and group value. The exterior is mainly whitewashed harl with contrasting red sandstone ashlar dressings. The design incorporates conical-roofed, battered, bowed bays, keystones, and broad stone mullions.

The west, or principal, elevation is symmetrical. Steps lead up to the center bay, where a canted porch with pedimented faces shelters a part-glazed timber door and flanking lights. Above the door is a keystoned Diocletian window, featuring a bracketed semicircular cill and eaves in a semicircular-pediment style. Flanking the central bay are finialled bowed bays, each with a wide tripartite window on a battered base to both floors.

The north, or entrance, elevation has a piended, swept-roof porch in the center bay, featuring three lights supported by turned timber pillars on a battered, harled base, alongside a panelled timber door with a decorative astragalled panel. There is a small round-headed window with a moulded cill to the right and a single window to the left of the center. Two windows are present on the first floor.

The east, or rear, elevation exhibits a variety of features including a garage at ground level, a Venetian stair window, and a lower, stepped-roof service wing. The south elevation has two windows at each floor in a broad bay to the left, and a lower, slightly set-back wing to the right with three windows on each floor and a piended roof over the outer windows.

The windows are largely timber sash and case windows. Upper sashes have 15 panes of glazing over plate glass on the west elevation, while elsewhere, small-pane over plate glass glazing is employed. The north porch, Diocletian, and Venetian windows feature leaded multi-pane glazing. The roof is covered in red tiles with terracotta ridge tiles and finials. Tall, coped, battered stacks have cans. Deeply overhanging eaves display moulded ironwork braces and decorative bargeboarding. Decorative cast-iron downpipes and rainwater hoppers are also present.

The interior features decorative plasterwork cornicing, architraved doors, deep skirting boards, and parquet floors. A carved timber fireplace and panelling feature in the principal ground floor room, alongside a fine timber staircase.

Low, saddleback-coped harled boundary walls with decorative two-leaf ironwork gates enclose the property.