60 Victoria Road, The Victoria Road Calender (a and S Henry's) Dundee, Scotland
Listed Building Data
60 Victoria Road, The Victoria Road Calender (a and S Henry's) has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 361291 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 25122
- Canmore ID
- 164365
- Category
- B
- Name
- 60 Victoria Road, the Victoria Road Calender (a and S Henry's)
- Parish
- Dundee
- County
- Dundee, City Of
- Easting
- 340385
- Northing
- 730799
- Date Listed
- 4 February 1965
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Robertson and Orchar 1874-5, with Baronial architectural detailing by J F Anderson, calendering, bag sewing and finishing works with internal alterations 1911-14 by James Lowe to form headquarters of A and S Henry. 3-storey and attic 14-bay Scotch baronial front. Basement loading doors in E 3 bays below bipartites and crowstepped gable. Rubble-built with ashlar dressings. Office entrance below large mullioned and transomed arched window inserted circa 1912. All windows linked by continuous hoodmoulds, segmental at ground and 2nd floors, stepped at 1st floor. Tall ground floor windows have carved wooden transoms. 1st floor windows altered for stained glass and to sash and case in circa 1912. 2nd floor windows partly original top-hopper and partly sash and case. Richly corbelled parapet. 3 bays at W bipartite below steep crowstepped gable with twin ornamental chimney cans, and flanked by angle bartizans with slit windows, conical roofs and wrought-iron thistle finials. E elevation, Eadies Road, 8-bay on steeply sloping site. Steep crowstepped gable over front 3 bays. N 4 bays with arched door, raised by 1 storey and attic circa 1912. W elevation similar crowstepped gable. 4-storeys of 3-bay N section added circa 1914. Nondescript N elevation, mainly brick infill due to demolition of rear calendering and bag-sewing departments. Slated M roof. Interior: extraordinary stair of banded marble panels and bronze balusters 1912-13. Mezzanine boardroom with timber panelled columns and plaster ceiling, 1912. 1st floor offices and large counting house with rows of desks. Ionic columns and plaster ceiling. All panelling and woodwork by Methven Hyslop and Co 1912-13. Ground floor, 2nd floor and attic is as in 1874 with fittings for press packers in the tall ground floor. Structure is timber floors on 3 rows of cast-iron columns with some steel reinforcements by P and W MacLellan (Glasgow). Timber and wrought-iron tie M-roof.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Built for the Victoria Road Calendering Co, bought for $7,500 in 1910 for Dundee HQ of A and S Henry (Manchester Merchants, founded 1805). $11,798 had been spent on the building by 1914. Further extensions to the rear (now mainly demolished) were added in 1916-17 and 1929. Basement and ground floor were for press packing and despatching. 1st floor offices, 2nd floor cloth samples and attic bag sewing and stamping. Most of the panelling, timber in boardroom, marble in stair, has vanished.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
NMRS AND 245 (1874). Photographs in Dundee Museum. DU MS 86/VIII/1 (Inventory of Buildings, Plant Plan etc and insurance plans).
