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27, 29 Commercial Street, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4613 / 56°27'40"N

Longitude: -2.9671 / 2°58'1"W

OS Eastings: 340500

OS Northings: 730323

OS Grid: NO405303

Mapcode National: GBR ZB8.D3

Mapcode Global: WH7RB.DVBL

Plus Code: 9C8VF26M+G5

Entry Name: 27, 29 Commercial Street, Dundee

Listing Name: 27-33 (Odd Nos) Commercial Street

Listing Date: 30 March 1994

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361205

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25063

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200361205

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: Maryfield

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

Style of John Bruce, late 19th century. 5-storey and attic, 7-bay,

Renaissance-detailed tenemental and commercial building. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Shopfronts to ground floor with original piers and cornice, two 2-leaf doors with keystoned and pilastered round-headed doorcase and fanlight, corniced parapet, paired brackets to left hand door; channelled 1st floor, cill course to 2nd floor; frieze, dentilled and corbelled main cornice to 3rd floor, wallhead course and cornice. Shouldered windows to 1st floor with moulded cavetto reveals, 5 centre

windows to 2nd floor architraved with alternate triangular and

segmental pediments, corbelled cills and cill panels; architraved windows to 3rd and 4th floors, keystoned and round-headed to 4th floor; single aediculed dormer (pediment removed), 2 round-headed leaded dormers to left and right, bipartite pedimented dormer to far left and right; 2-pane timber sash and case frames. Corniced axial stacks.

FRONT ELEVATION: door to ground floor centre, and to right, flanked by shopfronts; 11 windows to 1st floor, 5 windows to 2nd and 3rd floors flanked by 2-storey canted oriels, 9 windows to 4th floor, 7 dormers.

INTERIOR: not seen.

Statement of Interest

The elevation is similar to Bruce's adjoining building at 35-45 Commercial Street, and pays lip service to James Mackison's 1871 Improvement Act designs such as that at 73-99 Commercial Street, both also listed.

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