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Latitude: 56.4533 / 56°27'11"N
Longitude: -2.987 / 2°59'13"W
OS Eastings: 339261
OS Northings: 729454
OS Grid: NO392294
Mapcode National: GBR Z80.DH
Mapcode Global: WH7RJ.22W4
Plus Code: 9C8VF237+85
Entry Name: The Vine, 43 Magdalen Yard Road, Dundee
Listing Name: 43 Magdalen Yard Road, "The Vine", Including Garden Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 8 May 1975
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361700
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25469
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, 43 Magdalen Yard Road, The Vine
ID on this website: 200361700
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: West End
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Villa
1836. Single-storey and basement, with 2-storey
accommodation within the W and rear portion.
Graeco-Egyptian villa of remarkable design. Ashlar S and
E, rubble N and W elevations.
3-bay E elevation with central advanced entrance flanked
by Greek Doric engaged columns in antis between single
windows in ramped, lugged architraves within recesses
formed by angle pilasters with simply incised Greek
detail. 5-bay S elevation similarly detailed with central
bay advanced, a consoled ramped window between pilasters
approached by steps. Entablature decorated by wreaths.
Parapet has acroteria over centre bays. N and W elevations
plain single, bi- and tripartite windows on 2 floors,
with simple angle pilasters. All windows sash and case
with 12-paned glazing pattern. Shallow piended slate
roofs surround central domed metal-roofed cupola. Small
square-section corniced stacks.
INTERIOR: octagonal vestibule with niches and tiled floor. High-ceilinged principal rooms lead from remarkable domed
inner hall lit by lantern cupola. Paired Ionic columns in
angles. Stencil-decorated doors and doorpieces, lively
plaster work and marble chimneypieces in principal rooms.
Low garden walls to N and S with pedestals for urns and
statuary (recently removed). Higher, curved walls at
Magdalen Place, 2 square gatepiers, 1 consoled, both with
tops missing.
Built for George Duncan MP.
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