88 Victoria Road and Return Elevation to Forebank Road and Bonnybank Road and Others Dundee, Scotland
Listed Building Data
88 Victoria Road and Return Elevation to Forebank Road and Bonnybank Road and Others 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 361296 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 25126
- Canmore ID
- 164363
- Category
- C
- Name
- 88 Victoria Road and Return Elevation to Forebank Road and Bonnybank Road, Bonnybank Apartments, Former Forebank Dyeworks (front Block Only)
- Parish
- Dundee
- County
- Dundee, City Of
- Easting
- 340458
- Northing
- 730837
- Date Listed
- 15 August 1985
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Alexander Johnston 1875, raised by 1 storey in 1895. 3-storey and attic 12-bay dyeworks, snecked rubble with polished margins. Rounded angles corbelled to square at 1st floor. Arched and keyblocked door at SW angle inscribed "Forebank Dye Works". 2 arched ground floor loading doors altered to windows. Main cornice below attic level windows (added 1985). 3-bay E and W gables with round-headed windows at attic. Skewed gables with ball finials (missing). Slate roof and fire-break gable at midpoint. N elevation had been adjoining dyeing sheds etc, now harled. Windows were originally 10-pane top-hoppers, now radically altered. INTERIOR: originally wooden-floored on cast-iron columns.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
A long established dyeworks owned by J and F Stevenson who on moving to Lawside Dyeworks, sold it to their manager William Watson in 1895 following a destructive fire. Front converted to flats in 1984-5.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Millar (1925) p 119-120. NMRS AND 486, AND 346 DU MS 86/XII.
