Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

1-7 (ODD NOS) UNION STREET, 52-58 (EVEN NOS) NETHERGATELB25576

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
04/02/1965
Local Authority
Dundee
Planning Authority
Dundee
Burgh
Dundee
NGR
NO 40214 30098
Coordinates
340214, 730098

Description

Earlier 19th century; remodelled and attic floor added by James MacLaren and Sons, 1892. 4-storey and attic, classically-detailed former Royal Hotel with shops to ground floor, on prominent corner site. Painted ashlar, slate and lead Mansard roof, ground floor partly pilastered polished granite. Corniced ground floor, cill band to 2nd floor, corniced and panelled parapet; architraved and corniced windows to 1st floor, architraved to 2nd, stilted-arch windows to octagonal dormer angle tower, keystoned segmental windows to pedimented

dormers and at wallhead stacks, 2-pane timber sash and case glazing; ridge stacks, shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks rising from parapets of 2-windowed dormers (angle ball-finials to Union Street elevation).

UNION STREET ELEVATION: 7-bay; moulded doorcase to centre partly masked by later canopy, slightly altered shopfronts to left and right, 7 windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor, wallhead stack dormer and 4 single dormers. Further segmental bay recessed to angle at right; pilastered doorcase to ground floor (door blocked as window), window to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor, octagonal dormer tower with swagged eaves, facetted slate roof and domed lantern.

NETHERGATE ELEVATION: slightly altered shopfronts to ground floor, tripartite window (centre consoled and blocked) to 1st floor flanked by single windows, 4 windows to 2nd and 3rd floor, wallhead stack dormer flanked by single dormers. Large gable stack at right return gable.

INTERIOR: not seen.

Statement of Special Interest

Union Street was built in a basically unified, plain classical style to the design of David Neave, following William Burn's 1824 recommendations. MacLaren's remodelling of Nos 1-7 incorporated the adjoining former Thistle Hall, 9-19 Union Street, also listed.

References

Bibliography

McKean and Walker (1993), pp64-65; Town council Minutes, 17 January 1828; Dundee ADPs, book 27, pp114-22; THE COURIER, 11 March 1893.

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)

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