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

259 PERTH ROAD AND SEYMOUR STREET, SEYMOUR LODGE, INCLUDING WALL AND RAILINGS TO SEYMOUR STREET, EXCLUDING ADDITIONS AT REARLB25542

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Date Added
04/02/1965
Local Authority
Dundee
Planning Authority
Dundee
Burgh
Dundee
NGR
NO 38493 29870
Coordinates
338493, 729870

Description

Charles and Leslie Ower, 1880. Dramatic Victorian Gothic

villa, square plan with window projections 2-storey and

attic, coursed rubble with ashlar dressings.

S elevation continuous cusped frieze links 2 advanced

bays, left bay ashlar fronted 4-light mullioned and

transomed window at first and second floors. Facetted

French pavilion roof with corbelled bargeboarded 3-light

dormer. Right bay mullioned and transomed windows, 4-light

ground, 3-light 2nd floor with bracketted and brattished

fish-scale slate awning. Pointed hood-moulded light over

within steep cusped elaborately bargeboarded gable.

W elevation right bay similar to S elevation but with

half-piended gable. Half piended and gabled porch with

wooden traceried pointed arched door. Cross window to left

and 3-light half-piended dormer.

E elevation: ground-floor advanced 4-light bay, 3-light window

over with cusped frieze balcony, cross and 3-light mullioned

and transomed windows to right. Short colonettes carry 2

3-light dormers with incised roundels and half-piended

bargeboarded roofs. 1-storey E wing has quatrefoil parapet to

Seymour Street.

Rear: plainer 1 and 2 storey wings. 3-light stair window.

Steep decoratively banded slate roofs with cusped overhanging

eaves, wrought-iron finials and tall corbelled stacks.

INTERIOR: good plasterwork in most rooms. Neat stained

glass panels in reception. Plainer glass to stair, cast-iron

bannisters. Coving and blind arcade to cupola in pavilion

roof. Some later partitions.

Rubble-built boundary walls and ashlar piers. Ornate gothic

cast-iron railings to Seymour Street only.

Statement of Special Interest

Listing excludes portacabins and other additions at rear.

References

Bibliography

McKean and Walker (1984), p.78. NMRS AND 659 (For H McGrady).

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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