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Latitude: 56.46 / 56°27'35"N
Longitude: -2.9703 / 2°58'13"W
OS Eastings: 340300
OS Northings: 730180
OS Grid: NO403301
Mapcode National: GBR Z9Y.DC
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.BWSL
Plus Code: 9C8VF25H+XV
Entry Name: 3 Crichton Street, Dundee
Listing Name: 3-9 (Odd Nos) Crichton Street, Crichton Buildings
Listing Date: 30 March 1994
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361294
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25124
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, 3 Crichton Street
ID on this website: 200361294
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Late 18th century. 4-storey, 6-bay commercial building with shops to ground floor. Painted ashlar, grey slate roof. Pilastered shopfronts, corniced ground floor, cill band to 1st and 2nd floor, eaves course; 2-pane timber sash and case windows, architraved to 1st floor, margined to 2nd; ashlar-coped skews, corniced gable stacks, wallhead stack to front.
FRONT ELEVATION: 3 shopfronts to ground floor, mostly original or with early alterations, model of the old Town House (William Adam, 1731, demolished) over Pillars public house door; 6 windows to upper floors, blinded at 3rd bay from right.
INTERIOR: not seen.
Crichton Street was the first of a series of streets to be cut through from the High Street to the Tay, beginning in 1779 following the purchase by the council of a large house belonging to Dr Crichton. This building appears to date from that time.
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