Description

David Baxter (Johnston and Baxter) dated 1910. Large 2-storey
villa, ashlar W and S elevations, snecked rubble E and N
elevations. Chanelled angles. Lugged architraves and
keystones to windows with linking sill courses.
W elevation symmetrical 7-bay, advanced central loggia,
triple arcade on double Roman Ionic columns, marble shafts.
Heavy consoled balustraded balcony. Canted oriel over.
Flanking ground floor advanced square bays, tripartite with
single light returns, balustrade. Single lights to side
and over. Dentil cornice. Twin banded ashlar stacks.
S elevation symmetrical 4-bay, end advanced with canted
bipartites through both floors. Centre tripartites, 1 a
French window. Garden balustrade links advanced end bays.
Central steps with dies. Dentil cornice. Banded ashlar stacks.
E elevation 5-bay, single lights and 1 corniced tripartite,
formerly a French window. 2nd windows from left,
beneath wallhead stack, are new insertions without architraves.
Lower 2-storey service wing with plain windows, massive
banded ashlar stack in re-entrant. Large modern extension.
Rear U-plan, court enclosed by single-storey block with
louvred ventilator. Stepped 3-light arched stair window.
Other windows plain.
Piended and platformed slate roofs. Sash and case windows,
2-pane glazing pattern.
INTERIOR: fine timber stair with stained glass window and
timber arcaded landing. Principal rooms have low-relief
plaster ceilings, 1 initialled and dated. Oak panelled
boardroom with oak Ionic chimneypiece. Also carved oak
chimney piece inscribed 'East West Hame's Best'. Some
rooms partitioned for offices.
GARAGE, near contemporary with the house, timber framed
on coursed rubble base. Timber sliding doors, fixed windows.
Roof half glazed and half slated.
LODGE by David Baxter 1910, ashlar, details similar to
main house 1-storey L-plan with pyramidal roofed porch
in re-entrant. Canted lights to gables. Piended swept
slate roofs. Wallhead stacks.
5 square-section GATEPIERS, 3 channelled with highly ornate
consoled finials, 2 plain capped piers. Low boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

For A P Mathewson, manufacturer. Now the Headquarters of

Tayside Health Board. Listing excludes major extension to E.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17812039

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