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86 Victoria Road, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4658 / 56°27'56"N

Longitude: -2.9682 / 2°58'5"W

OS Eastings: 340441

OS Northings: 730823

OS Grid: NO404308

Mapcode National: GBR ZB4.Q8

Mapcode Global: WH7RB.CRT4

Plus Code: 9C8VF28J+8P

Entry Name: 86 Victoria Road, Dundee

Listing Name: 78-86 (Even Nos) Victoria Road and 2, 4 Forebank Road

Listing Date: 15 August 1985

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361803

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25530

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, 86 Victoria Road

ID on this website: 200361803

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: Coldside

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

J Graham Firley (McCulloch and Fairley), 1877 (dated) 4-storey tenement of John Lessel's Edinburgh City Improvement Trust type, rubble coursers with ashlar dressings and moulded string courses (that at 3rd floor stepped).

ELEVATION TO VICTORIA ROAD: Cast-iron columned ground floor shops, partly over laid by modern fascia, and pend. 4 windows and octagonal corner bay over 1st and 3rd bays bipartite; 3rd bay is corbelled out midway up 1st floor level to form segmentally arched recess head over 1st floor window and rises into crowstepped gable tih cruciform stack, 3rd floor window has stepped hoodmould with panel: 1st, 2nd and 4th bays have segment-headed hoodmoulds, 3rd floor corbelled dormer heads with segmental arches and tympanum ornaments; corner octagon rises into prismatic roof with finialled gablet lucarne dormers and weather vane. FRONTAGE TO FOREBANK ROAD: 5-window, 1st and 2nd bays bipartite, similar treatment to Victoria Road frontage without shops, corbelled and gabled bay treatment of its 3rd bay repeated at the 1st bay, top course and cornice of chimneyhead missing. 3-bays to right ground floor stepped segmental arched hoodmould. Corbelled wallhead stack.

REAR: plain with single-light windows, canted dormers and wallhead stacks.

Slate roofs. Windows sash and case, 2-pane glazing pattern to front, 8-pane pattern to rear.

Statement of Interest

Built for J Duncan. Wash-houses in attics.

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