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Latitude: 56.4572 / 56°27'25"N
Longitude: -2.9941 / 2°59'38"W
OS Eastings: 338834
OS Northings: 729892
OS Grid: NO388298
Mapcode National: GBR Z77.M7
Mapcode Global: WH7R9.ZYFQ
Plus Code: 9C8VF244+V9
Entry Name: Middle Block, 8 Tait's Lane, Dundee
Listing Name: 8 Tait's Lane
Listing Date: 30 June 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362082
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25680
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, 8 Tait's Lane, Middle Block
ID on this website: 200362082
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: West End
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Tenement
Circa 1860 simple 3-storey tenement with pletties, 3 blocks
divided by ridge stacks giving 18 flats. Rubble-built.
S elevation: 2 free-standing semi-circular stair towers
give access to 1st and 2nd floor flats by pletties - stone
flagged balconies on narrow steel supports. Wrought-iron
railings. W stair serves single tenement, 2 flat per pletty,
paired doors flanked on each side by slit window and single
main window. E stair serves double tenement, 4 flat per
pletty, windows arranged 1-2-1, 1-2-1 between doors with
adjacent slit windows.
N elevation: 12-window front, W tenement 2 single lights
and paired central slit windows. E and centre tenements
windows grouped in pairs between tall centre wallhead stacks.
W gable: off-centre single lights, ground floor blocked door.
Skewputts and gable end stacks.
Slate roof with gable end, ridge and wallhead stacks.
Windows 4-pane sash and case, several altered.
Selected for listing as one of the least altered examples of
the mid-victorian Dundee tenement with "pletties" or
"platties", retaining its stacks and not having later wc
towers.
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