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East Block, 8 Tait's Lane, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4572 / 56°27'26"N

Longitude: -2.9938 / 2°59'37"W

OS Eastings: 338848

OS Northings: 729895

OS Grid: NO388298

Mapcode National: GBR Z77.M8

Mapcode Global: WH7R9.ZYJP

Plus Code: 9C8VF244+VF

Entry Name: East Block, 8 Tait's Lane, Dundee

Listing Name: 8 Tait's Lane

Listing Date: 30 June 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 362083

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25680

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, 8 Tait's Lane, East Block

ID on this website: 200362083

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: West End

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

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.

Statement of Interest

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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