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Latitude: 56.4638 / 56°27'49"N
Longitude: -2.9719 / 2°58'18"W
OS Eastings: 340209
OS Northings: 730605
OS Grid: NO402306
Mapcode National: GBR Z9Q.F1
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.BS1N
Plus Code: 9C8VF27H+G6
Entry Name: India Buildings, 2 Victoria Road, Dundee
Listing Name: 2, 4 Victoria Road, and 86 Bell Street, India Buildings
Listing Date: 4 February 1965
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361769
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25515
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, 2 Victoria Road, India Buildings
ID on this website: 200361769
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Commercial building
John Murray Robertson, 1874, extended 1876 to No 4 Victoria Raod. 3-storey and basement commercial block in distinctive manner of Alexander "Greek" Thomson. Ashlar with incised Greek details. Brick-built sides and rear.
ELEVATION TO BELL STREET: symmetrical 5-bay. Centre and outer bays single-light, inner bays 3-light. Central battered doorpiece with pediment and acroteria on diminutive, flanight-level recessed pilasters. Ground floor and basement plain. 1st and 2nd floor windows recessed with incised anthemion band at 1st. Pilastered mullions; pilastered 2nd floor. Anthemion frieze, cornice and parapet. Curved 3-light angle.
ELEVATION TO VICTORIA ROAD: 7-bays, alternatively single and 3 light, similarly detailed, but No 4 without basement: entrance architraved and lined with paterae. Mullions altered at 1st floor, 3rd bay from right.
ELEVATIONS TO RING ROAD AND REAR: blind brick gable, yellow brick with ashlar window dressings to rear.
Slate roofs, ashlar ridge stacks. Windows sash and case 2-pane glazing pattern with decorative wrought-iron bars to basement.
INTERIOR: Offices off 2 light wells, each with flagged platforms on cast-iron columns and rolled steel joists.
Fine cast and wrought-iron stair balusters.
J M Robertson's first solo commission in Dundee.
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