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Rosemount, 6-8 Forthill Road, Dundee

A Category C Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4703 / 56°28'13"N

Longitude: -2.8745 / 2°52'28"W

OS Eastings: 346219

OS Northings: 731250

OS Grid: NO462312

Mapcode National: GBR VN.389D

Mapcode Global: WH7RC.TMCN

Plus Code: 9C8VF4CG+45

Entry Name: Rosemount, 6-8 Forthill Road, Dundee

Listing Name: Broughty Ferry, 6, 8 Forthill Road, Rosemount Including Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 29 October 1991

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 362252

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25819

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200362252

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: The Ferry

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

Alexander Johnston of Johnston and Baxter, circa 1870. 2-storey, rectangular-plan, 3-bay gabled villa. Coursers at front, rubble at sides, painted ashlar quoins and dressings, slate roof. 2-storey canted windows at front, swept to square at gablehead, some single windows, all shallowly segmental-headed at 1st floor with plate glass glazing, out-of-keeping uPVC at ground floor; deep eaves, moulded purlin and rafter ends, plain bargeboards, exposed trusses at gables; corniced ridge stacks, most cans similar.

W ELEVATION: panelled door in recessed chamfered doorcase at narrow bay at centre, bracketted gabled canopy with open-work decoration and slate roof, dormerheaded window at 1st floor; slightly advanced gables at left and right; canted windows, stepped band course over ground floor window, pointed recessed panel over 1st floor centre window.

S ELEVATION: window and openings at ground floor right, half-piended single window and canted, jerkin-headed oriel window, each breaking through eaves at 1st floor.

N ELEVATION: window at ground floor left.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen.

INTERIOR: not seen.

Statement of Interest

The house first appears in the DUNDEE DIRECTORY for 1871-2, occupied by James Hodge, accountant.

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