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Baldragon House, 5, 7, 9 Cowgate, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4634 / 56°27'48"N

Longitude: -2.9683 / 2°58'5"W

OS Eastings: 340433

OS Northings: 730562

OS Grid: NO404305

Mapcode National: GBR ZB4.W8

Mapcode Global: WH7RB.CSSY

Plus Code: 9C8VF27J+9M

Entry Name: Baldragon House, 5, 7, 9 Cowgate, Dundee

Listing Name: 5, 7, 9 COWGATE/75-79 (Odd Nos) Murraygate, Baldragon House

Listing Date: 30 March 1994

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361287

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25117

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, 5, 7, 9 Cowgate, Baldragon House

ID on this website: 200361287

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: Maryfield

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

James Sibbald, dated 1910. 5-storey and attic, 6-bay commercial building on splayed corner site with shopfronts to ground floor. Red ashlar, brick to sides and rear, grey slate roof. Cill band to 1st floor, cill course to 2nd and 3rd floors, corbelled main cornice to 3rd floor, corniced and coped parapet; channelled pilasters flanking angle bay rising to dormer with mannered parapet, masking square dome with aediculaed lantern; single, paired and canted windows with 2-pane timber sash and case glazing, corniced to 1st floor, continuous cornice

with 3 pediments to 2nd floor, 2 single dormers with segmental

pediments, 2 tripartite dormers with triangular pediments. Corniced gable stacks.

COWGATE ELEVATION: modern shopfronts to ground floor, canted window to left and 3 single windows to right at upper floors, tripartite and 2 single dormers.

MURRAYGATE ELEVATION: modern shopfronts to ground floor, bipartite window to upper floors and dormer at left angle, canted window to upper floors and tripartite dormer to right.

INTERIOR: not seen.

Statement of Interest

This building is a prominent structure at the junction of Cowgate and Murraygate.

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