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240 Hilltown. Dundee Saving's Bank, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4694 / 56°28'9"N

Longitude: -2.9753 / 2°58'31"W

OS Eastings: 340009

OS Northings: 731233

OS Grid: NO400312

Mapcode National: GBR Z9C.YC

Mapcode Global: WH7RB.8NFC

Plus Code: 9C8VF29F+QV

Entry Name: 240 Hilltown. Dundee Saving's Bank, Dundee

Listing Name: 240 Hilltown and 1A Stirling Street. Former Dundee Savings Bank

Listing Date: 15 August 1985

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361459

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25264

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200361459

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: Coldside

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

David W Baxter of Johnston and Baxter, dated 1904.
2-storey red ashlar free Baronial bank on corner site.
Circular corner tourelle containing entrance vestibule,
projecting pedimental doorpiece with triple transom light,
2 ground floor and 3 1st floor corniced and transomed
single-light windows, corbelled cornice and conical roof
with wrought-iron finial.
Flanking gables to both frontages, each with 5-light
double transomed ground floor window and 3-light
transomed 1st floor window with keystone and small
semi-circular armorial pediment, set in semi-elliptically
arched recess; diapered stacks.
3 further bays to Stirling Street with similar fenestration
3-light at ground floor, cross windows at 1st. Carved
parapet. Slate roofs and diapered gable end stacks.
INTERIOR: some modernisation, but several good contemporary
wooden doorpieces remain.

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