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Latitude: 56.4608 / 56°27'38"N
Longitude: -2.9735 / 2°58'24"W
OS Eastings: 340104
OS Northings: 730276
OS Grid: NO401302
Mapcode National: GBR Z9H.X7
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.9V8Y
Plus Code: 9C8VF26G+8H
Entry Name: Willison House, 56 Barrack Street, Dundee
Listing Name: 56 Barrack Street, Willison House
Listing Date: 30 March 1994
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361082
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24963
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200361082
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Building
H Pierce Robbie of Findlay Stewart and Robbie, circa 1934. 4-storey, basically rectangular-plan, plain Art-Deco style furniture warehouse and shop. (Red brick, partly painted and harled), corner elevations to Barrack and Willison Streets slightly advanced and faience-clad, terrazzo shopfronts, piended slate roofs. Base course, band course over shopfronts, coped wallhead, 2-, 3- and 4-light metal-framed windows.
BARRACK STREET ELEVATION: asymmetrical. Splayed angle to left, doorway with horizontal canopy, single window to 3 floors above recessed in panel with ornament between, window guard to 1st floor, shallow-pitched pediment with mannered decoration rising above wallhead; 7 bays to right, 6 plate glass shop windows of differing widths, 7 windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors arranged in a 2-, 4-, 3-, 4-, 4-, 3-, 4-light
pattern; 3 bays to far right, plate-glass window to ground floor,
3 windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors arranged in a 2-, 3- and 2-light pattern with bays delineated by giant pilaster strips rising through wallhead; further bay to outer right consisting of shopfront and later 1st floor bay.
WILLISON STREET ELEVATION: symmetrical. Wide recessed window and entrance to centre flanked by single plate-glass windows, 5 windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors arranged in a 2-, 3-, 4-, 3- and 2-light pattern.
REAR ELEVATIONS: symmetrically arranged windows to upper floors.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The building is the premises of the long established Robertsons house furnishers. The inscription on the windowguard over the entrance reads 'Willison House established 1880'.
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