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Latitude: 56.4635 / 56°27'48"N
Longitude: -2.9702 / 2°58'12"W
OS Eastings: 340316
OS Northings: 730572
OS Grid: NO403305
Mapcode National: GBR Z9Y.4V
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.BSWW
Plus Code: 9C8VF27H+9W
Entry Name: Scottish Provident Institution, 49 Meadowside, Dundee
Listing Name: 49 Meadowside
Listing Date: 30 March 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361542
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25331
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, 49 Meadowside, Scottish Provident Institution
ID on this website: 200361542
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Office building
1897. 4-storey and later attic, 7-bay, classically-detailed
commercial building. Cream sandstone ashlar, polished grey/black granite to ground floor, concealed slate roof. Base course, pilastraded ground floor supporting parapet with segmental-capped dies, channelled 1st floor, cill course to 2nd and 3rd floors, corniced balustraded parapet with pedimented dies; rusticated quoin strips to 1st and 2nd floors, paired pilasters to ground and 3rd floors. 2-pane timber sash and case windows, round-headed and keystoned to ground floor, architraved with alternate segmental and triangular pediments to
1st and 2nd floors, round-headed, keystoned and architraved to
3rd floor. Ashlar-coped skews with corniced ridge and end stacks.
FRONT ELEVATION door to centre with keystoned round-headed doorpiece, channelled pilasters, panel inscribed 'SPI' at parapet above flanked by urn-finialled dies, 3 windows to left and right, 7 windows to each upper floor, 3 modern dormers partly masked by parapet.
INTERIOR: not seen.
Built for the Scottish Provident Institution, whose name appears in individual gold letters over the central bays of the ground floor.
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