78-86 (Even) Victoria Road and 2, 4 Forebank Road Dundee, Scotland

Listed Building Data

78-86 (Even) Victoria Road and 2, 4 Forebank Road 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
361801 (entity ID)
Building ID
25530
Canmore ID
184128
Category
B
Name
78 86 (even Nos) Victoria Road and 2, 4 Forebank Road
Parish
Dundee
County
Dundee, City Of
Easting
340424
Northing
730820
Date Listed
15 August 1985
Source
Historic Environment Scotland Portal: LB25530 official listing
More Info
Canmore: 184128 map, documents, images, activities, notes, etc.

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

J Graham Firley (McCulloch and Fairley), 1877 (dated) 4-storey tenement of John Lessel's Edinburgh City Improvement Trust type, rubble coursers with ashlar dressings and moulded string courses (that at 3rd floor stepped). ELEVATION TO VICTORIA ROAD: Cast-iron columned ground floor shops, partly over laid by modern fascia, and pend. 4 windows and octagonal corner bay over 1st and 3rd bays bipartite; 3rd bay is corbelled out midway up 1st floor level to form segmentally arched recess head over 1st floor window and rises into crowstepped gable tih cruciform stack, 3rd floor window has stepped hoodmould with panel: 1st, 2nd and 4th bays have segment-headed hoodmoulds, 3rd floor corbelled dormer heads with segmental arches and tympanum ornaments; corner octagon rises into prismatic roof with finialled gablet lucarne dormers and weather vane. FRONTAGE TO FOREBANK ROAD: 5-window, 1st and 2nd bays bipartite, similar treatment to Victoria Road frontage without shops, corbelled and gabled bay treatment of its 3rd bay repeated at the 1st bay, top course and cornice of chimneyhead missing. 3-bays to right ground floor stepped segmental arched hoodmould. Corbelled wallhead stack. REAR: plain with single-light windows, canted dormers and wallhead stacks. Slate roofs. Windows sash and case, 2-pane glazing pattern to front, 8-pane pattern to rear.

Listed Building Statement of Special Interest

Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

Built for J Duncan. Wash-houses in attics.

Listed Building References

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