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Latitude: 56.4623 / 56°27'44"N
Longitude: -2.9749 / 2°58'29"W
OS Eastings: 340021
OS Northings: 730444
OS Grid: NO400304
Mapcode National: GBR Z9D.FQ
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.8TMS
Plus Code: 9C8VF26G+W2
Entry Name: 10 Constitution Road, Dundee
Listing Name: 10, 12 Constitution Road, Including Gatepiers and Railings
Listing Date: 30 March 1994
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361270
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25110
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, 10 Constitution Road
ID on this website: 200361270
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Institute building
1838; extended 1872; modern additions to side and rear. 2-storey, basement and attic, 5-bay, classically-detailed, former educational building. Cream sandstone ashlar facade, channelled to ground floor, rubble to sides and rear, slate roof. Front elevation: cill band to 1st floor, coped parapet with dentilled cornice; tall architraved windows to 1st floor, round-headed at recessed centre bay, modern out-of-character glazing; Mansard roof, round-headed bipartite dormer to centre with angle acroteria and square-domed roof with capped apex, pedimented dormers to flattened pyramidal-roofed pavilions at left and right and at returns.
FRONT ELEVATION: door to centre with fanlight approached by steps over basement, pilastered doorpiece with parapet detail, 2 windows to left and right, 3 round-headed windows recessed at 1st floor, window to left and right, 3 dormers detailed as above.
SIDE ELEVATIONS: various windows to left, mostly masked; additions to right.
REAR ELEVATION: various additions.
INTERIOR: not seen.
GATEPIERS AND GATES: 2 mannered octagonal gatepiers, cast-iron railings enclosing basement area.
This building was originally the Watt Institution, opened (according to MacLaren/Thomson) in 1840, and converted to the YMCA in 1872; currently (1994) in commercial use.
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