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Latitude: 56.4729 / 56°28'22"N
Longitude: -2.9702 / 2°58'12"W
OS Eastings: 340331
OS Northings: 731622
OS Grid: NO403316
Mapcode National: GBR Z9X.HJ
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.BKWM
Plus Code: 9C8VF2FH+5W
Entry Name: Dens Road School, 75-77 Dens Road, Dundee
Listing Name: Dens Road Primary School Including Air Intake for Plenum Heating, System, Janitors House and Railings
Listing Date: 4 February 1965
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361414
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25225
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, 75-77 Dens Road, Dens Road School
ID on this website: 200361414
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Coldside
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: School building
James H Langlands, William Gillespie Lamond assisting, 1908-9. Prominently sited 2-storey symmetrical school, hammer-dressed rubble with ashlar dressings.
S ELEVATION: 3 2-storey classroom blocks with 5-storey (mezzanine) inserted above ground and 1st floors) stair and cloakroom towers between. Centre block 3 groups of windows each arranged 1/2/1 with Jugendstihl lettering at 1st floor level, end blocks with similar window arrangement end bay gabled with arched detail to head.
Towers stepped 5-light horizontal windows, semi-circular canopied and consoled doors at outer bays, 5-light lunette in 2nd mezzanine, top storey with 10-light window; curvilinear parapet and stepped stacks.
E AND W ELEVATIONS: centre tripartite, arched at 1st, ground floor door and steps inserted over air intake.
N ELEVATION: windows 1/2/1 lights; centre block advanced, porches in re-entrant angles with 10-light mezzanine window over.
Top-hopper windows with horizontal astragals.
Piended slate M-roofs, rubble-built stacks and 4 large louvred broad-eaved dome-capped ventilators.
INTERIOR: corridor-plan. Central halls at ground and 1st floor with arcades and borrowed lights from classrooms. Re-fitted 1972-3 - new fire doors and mezzanine partitions. Original detailing largely destroyed.
PLENUM HEATING SYSTEM AIR INTAKE: circular rubble-built structure with open timber peristyle and concave roof in front of centre block.
JANITOR'S HOUSE: single storey and attic janitor's house at SE corner, harled on rubble-built base, rounded angle at SE rising into angle dormer. Entrance on S with small flanking windows. Original glazing pattern 2-pane lower sash multi-pane upper. Piended catslide swept roof, broad eaves and stack.
RAILINGS: wrought-iron railings resemble the stamen of plants.
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