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Customs Bond No.2, Candle Lane, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4623 / 56°27'44"N

Longitude: -2.9667 / 2°58'0"W

OS Eastings: 340526

OS Northings: 730435

OS Grid: NO405304

Mapcode National: GBR ZB8.9V

Mapcode Global: WH7RB.DTHT

Plus Code: 9C8VF26M+W8

Entry Name: Customs Bond No.2, Candle Lane, Dundee

Listing Name: 81 Seagate and Return Elevation to Candle Lane Former No 2 Customs Warehouse

Listing Date: 30 June 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361531

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25318

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, Candle Lane, Customs Bond No.2

ID on this website: 200361531

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: Maryfield

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Bonded warehouse

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Description

Christopher J Bisset, dated 1868, top floor added by Charles and Leslie Ower, 1878. 3-storey and basement, snecked squared rubble with ashlar dressings, whisky bond.

5-BAY FRONT TO SEAGATE with Renaissance detail. Channelled ashlar ground floor, 2 depressed arched loading doors, one altered to a window, with dated keystones (VR 1868). 3 round-headed windows with aprons, cornice over ground floor. 1st and 2nd floors ashlar angle pilasters; segmental-headed windows with 1st floor cill course, 2nd floor corbelled cills. Main cornice and blocking course, stepped up at centre. Cast iron wheatsheaf chimney cans at angles.

LONG ELEVATION TO CANDLE LANE: alternate original segmental headed windows and newly inserted flat headed windows. Band course at basement and 1st floor cill levels. Cast-iron tie plates towards S.

S elevation harled where further warehouses have been removed.

Piended slate roofs. New sash and case windows to street elevations. Bar removed.

INTERIOR: converted to flats 1984-5 with basement car park retaining original appearance. Basement and ground floors fireproof cast-iron columns and beams, brick arches and wrought-iron ties. Timber post and beam construction above. New lightwell sunk along W side.

Statement of Interest

Converted to flats 1984-5. Formerly Stewart and Son's Whisky Bond.

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