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5 Blackness Avenue, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.457 / 56°27'25"N

Longitude: -2.9956 / 2°59'44"W

OS Eastings: 338739

OS Northings: 729869

OS Grid: NO387298

Mapcode National: GBR Z74.8C

Mapcode Global: WH7R9.YYPW

Plus Code: 9C8VF243+QQ

Entry Name: 5 Blackness Avenue, Dundee

Listing Name: 1, 3, 5 Blackness Avenue and 299 Hawkhill with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 30 June 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361587

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25364

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, 5 Blackness Avenue

ID on this website: 200361587

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: West End

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

James MacLaren 1868-9, 3 4-storey tenements, coursed
rubble with ashlar details, stepped in fall of ground.
Nos 1 and 3: 3-bay with outer bays canted through 3 floors,
interlaced carving at aprons of 1st floor, balcony fronts
bipartite at 3rd floor. Shallow projecting pilastered
centre bay; centre stair door with side windows decorative
frieze and consoled cast-iron balcony (that at No 1 missing)
over. Bipartites above, finely detailed at 1st floor, between
pilaster strips and consoles, simpler detailing, 2nd and
3rd floors. Central vertically channelled wallhead stack.
Elevation to Hawkhill 4-bay with central consoled doorway
beneath shield inscribed "Gowrie Place 1868". Single and
bipartite windows, with scroll decoration at ground floor,
bracketted cills and cornices at 1st, aprons at 2nd and cill
course at 3rd floor.
No 5: 5-bay tenement in similar style but less finely
detailed than Nos 1 and 3, with end bays canted and central
bipartites over entrance. Cill-level band courses. Double
wallhead stack with central bipartite.
Slate roofs with ridge stacks. Pilaster strips mark party
walls between tenements and at angles with terminating urns.
Low boundary walls and square gatepiers.

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