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Latitude: 56.4714 / 56°28'16"N
Longitude: -2.9052 / 2°54'18"W
OS Eastings: 344328
OS Northings: 731394
OS Grid: NO443313
Mapcode National: GBR VM.H74N
Mapcode Global: WH7RC.BLST
Plus Code: 9C8VF3CV+GW
Entry Name: The Croft, 5-5A Albany Road, Dundee
Listing Name: West Ferry, 5 Albany Road and 36 Strathern Road, the Croft, Including Wall and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 24 March 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362367
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25902
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, 5-5a Albany Road, The Croft
ID on this website: 200362367
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: The Ferry
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Villa
John Murray Robertson, 1898. 2-storey and attic, irregular-plan villa. Red brick, red tile roof. Mostly 10-pane sash and case windows, some multi-pane casements; cill course at 1st floor; trellis work attached at 1st floor S and W; exposed rafter ends at eaves, some plain bargeboards; some swept dormerheads; piended-roof, ribbed and coped stacks.
W ELEVATION: gabled portch at left with 2-leaf door flanked by windows, single window at 1st floor; multi-pane bow window at right, bipartite at 1st floor breaking eaves; horizontal window at far right ground floor; projecting diagonal gable at outer right, 4-light window at ground floor with bipartites at return, tripartite at 1st floor with single windows at returns.
S ELEVATION: symmetrical 3-bay recessed section, verandah at ground floor with turned timber columns, projecting window at 1st floor ganked by single window all projecting through eaves, two 4-light gabled dormers; projecting diagonal gable at left as above; projecting gable at right, tripartite window at ground floor with door and window at returns; recessed bay at outer right with modrn out of character sliding doors at left, window at right, bipartite at 1st floor breaking eaves.
E ELEVATION: window and flat-roof projection at ground floor, 2 single and 2 bipartite windows at 1st.
N ELEVATION: piended roof bay at left swept down at right; lower lean-to at fra right; various doors and windows.
INTERIOR: sub-divided into a number of units with some loss of original features.
WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped rubble wall and gatepiers at Strathearn Road.
The croft was built for H B Gilroy in an English Arts and Crafts/American shingle-style manner; a much pared down interpretation when compared with the same architect's the Bughties, 76 Camphill Road, Broughty Ferry (1882, listed separately).
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