Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

RIVERSIDE DRIVE, VERNONHOLME HOUSE, GARAGE, LODGE AND GATEPIERSLB25646

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
30/06/1989
Local Authority
Dundee
Planning Authority
Dundee
Burgh
Dundee
NGR
NO 36898 29731
Coordinates
336898, 729731

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 Special Interest

For A P Mathewson, manufacturer. Now the Headquarters of

Tayside Health Board. Listing excludes major extension to E.

References

Bibliography

McKean and Walker (1984) p 82.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

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