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Latitude: 56.4608 / 56°27'38"N
Longitude: -3.0077 / 3°0'27"W
OS Eastings: 337996
OS Northings: 730304
OS Grid: NO379303
Mapcode National: GBR Z5Q.BN
Mapcode Global: WH7R9.RVXY
Plus Code: 9C8RFX6R+8W
Entry Name: Lodge, New Industrial School For Girls, 309 Blackness Road, Dundee
Listing Name: Blackness Road, Parkview School, Lodge, Boundary Walls and Railings
Listing Date: 30 June 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361599
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25376
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, 309 Blackness Road, New Industrial School For Girls, Lodge
ID on this website: 200361599
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: West End
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Gatehouse
James MacLaren and Sons, dated 1894. Scots Jacobean 2-storey courtyard-plan school. Snecked rubble with ashlar dressings,
symmetrical S front set back from road on elevated site.
3-storey central entrance tower, columned semi-circular
arched doorpiece with rusticated voussoirs, canted oriel
and bipartite with pedimented dormer-head above. Flanking
semi-circular turrets with strapwork decoration at 1st floor
and segmentally pedimented dormer-heads at 2nd floor windows, semi-conical roofs swept into pavilion roof with cast-iron
brattishing flanked by curvilinear gable stacks. Symmetrical
3-bay sections link to advanced outer wings, latter with
curvilinear gables, 2 bay with strapwork heads at 1st.
W elevation symmetrical, 3 windows (centre bipartites) either
side of central 2-window curvilinear gable.
E elevation: asymmetrical 8-bays with off-centre 2 by 2
bay wings with curvilinear gable and commemorative plaque.
Single-storey workshops and boundary at rear. Plain elevation
to courtyard, canopy awnings on simple cast-iron brackets
to 3 sides.
Interior largely altered and partitioned.
Cylindrical gatepiers with conical tops. Single-storey lodge
with canted bay, porch in angle. Low pitched broad eaved
roof with centre stack.
Low boundary walls with wrought-iron railings.
Formerly the New Industrial School for Girls, now Parkview,
School, owned by the Balgay Trust. Plaque records gratitude
to George Duncan MP who helped found the first Industrial
School in 1855.
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