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Taypark, 484 Perth Road, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4558 / 56°27'20"N

Longitude: -3.015 / 3°0'54"W

OS Eastings: 337540

OS Northings: 729754

OS Grid: NO375297

Mapcode National: GBR Z4Z.5H

Mapcode Global: WH7R9.NZHS

Plus Code: 9C8RFX4M+8X

Entry Name: Taypark, 484 Perth Road, Dundee

Listing Name: 484 Perth Road, Taypark with Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 30 June 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361976

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25630

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, 484 Perth Road, Taypark

ID on this website: 200361976

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: West End

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

Circa 1863, 2-storey Scots Baronial, extended 1916 by Thoms and Wilkie. Ashlar-built.

E elevation: Corinthian-columned pedimented doorpiece, carved

tympanum, 2 windows over with steep gablets. Advanced

crow-stepped gabled bay with ground-floor canted window,

strapworked parapet, bipartite over and single attic light.

Crowstepped gablet to right.

SE turret: corbelled out at 1st floor over chamfered angle,

corbel course and steep conical roof with wrought-iron

finial.

S elevation: steep crowstepped-gabled bay with ground floor

canted window, detailing similar to E gable. Projecting

tripartite with stepped hoodmould and armorial, 2 single

windows in crowstepped gablets over. Modern dormer.

W elevation: twin crowstepped gables with ground floor

canted windows. Range to left remodelled and heightened

1916 by Thoms and Wilkie with gabletted 1st floor windows

and octagonal slate-roofed cupola.

Steep slate roofs with ashlar stacks, tops decoratively carved

except at N gable, rebuilt in rendered brick. Windows sash

and case, 2- and 4-pane glazing pattern, 12-pane to Thoms

and Wilkie section.

Statement of Interest

For Alexander Low, flax spinner, Hillbank Works.

Institutionalised. Compare St Helens, 474 Perth Road.

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