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Latitude: 56.4688 / 56°28'7"N
Longitude: -2.9582 / 2°57'29"W
OS Eastings: 341064
OS Northings: 731151
OS Grid: NO410311
Mapcode National: GBR ZC7.31
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.JNKT
Plus Code: 9C8VF29R+GP
Entry Name: 3 and 5 Lyon Street, Dundee
Listing Name: 1-31 (Odd Nos) Lyon Street, and 30 Albert Street
Listing Date: 30 June 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361485
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25287
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200361485
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
1866-7 Terrace of 5 tenements built for the millworkers
of Dens Works. 4-storey coursed and squared rubble-built
tenements with rear platties.
Elevation to Lyon Street 29-bay, comprising 5 6-bay
tenements, end block by Albert Street 5-bay. Ground floor
band course. Alternate doors altered to windows. 3 pends.
Side elevations 2-bay, blind to Erskine Street: wallhead
stack removed. Chamfered angle to Albert Street with
ground floor shopfront, 1 bay blind. Shouldered wallhead
stack.
Rear: 5 open-topped semi-circular stair towers with
flagstone platforms on curved iron brackets and light iron
(altered to steel in 4 cases) framework. Brick blockings
where lavatory towers were added and subsequently removed.
4 stair towers harled.
Piended slate roof, replaced by concrete tiles excepting
Nos 1-7. Tall ridge stacks removed.
REF Wendy Wilkinson "Housing and Health" in BAXTERS OF
DUNDEE Ed AJ Cooke (1980) pp42, 55-58
E Gauldie (Ed) THE DUNDEE TEXTILE INDUSTRY, 1790-1885.
FROM THE PAPERS OF PETER CARMICHAEL OF ARTHURSTONE (1969).
Baxter Brothers, then the biggest employers in Dundee,
were the only textile company to build housing for
employees in the centre of the city. This block housed
in 1871 648 people in 30 2-room 73 3-room and 1 4-roomed
houses at a cost of $11,892. It was "an attempt to secure
certain key workers by providing good quality housing at
reasonable rents" during a period of expansion and labour
shortage. The experiment was not repeated. When built it
was the biggest regular planned range of tenements in
Dundee. Peter Carmichael took a close interest in their
planning.
Nos 9-31 renovated in early 1980s.
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