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Latitude: 56.4618 / 56°27'42"N
Longitude: -2.9645 / 2°57'52"W
OS Eastings: 340662
OS Northings: 730382
OS Grid: NO406303
Mapcode National: GBR ZBL.F2
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.FVK5
Plus Code: 9C8VF26P+P5
Entry Name: 65 Trades Lane, Dundee
Listing Name: 43-65 (Odd Nos) Trades Lane
Listing Date: 30 March 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361907
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25574
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, 65 Trades Lane
ID on this website: 200361907
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Commercial building
Late 19th century; alterations and additions early 20th century.
2-storey, 15-bay commercial building on gushet site with East Dock Street and Candle Lane. Rendered to front, brick to rear, platform slate roof, piended to gushet. Painted pilastered ground floor with dentilled cornice, corniced parapet; large plate glass windows to ground floor, tripartite windows to 1st in recessed panels separated by pilaster strips.
TRADES LANE ELEVATION: 14-bay. 7 bays to left; 2-leaf doors with fanlight at 4th bay from left with keystoned and moulded round-headed doorcase, anta pilasters, pilastered doorpiece, fluted to top with paired consoles and segmental pediment rising through cornice, 3 windows to left and right, 7 windows to 1st floor. 7 bays to right; door and doorpiece to bay at right as above, 2 vehicular openings to left, 3-bay shopfront to far left with doors to centre, 7 windows to 1st floor (bipartite to right), 7 dormers in slate-hung Mansard roof.
EAST DOCK STREET ELEVATION: canted gushet bay with rounded angles, 5 windows to ground floor, 6 windows to 1st floor with pilastered mullions and shallow segmental heads (this pattern possibly formerly at Trades Lane elevation).
CANDLE LANE ELEVATION: various openings, some pilastered and most blocked at ground floor, 1st floor windows partially blocked.
INTERIOR: not seen.
Although this building has been altered, it is important in streetscape terms forming the eastern flank of the Gellatly Street/East Dock Street/Trades Lane block, the south eastern parts of which are also listed, and with the Customs House and Victoria Dock opposite is of substantial historical importance in relation to the maritime history of Dundee.
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