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Latitude: 56.4659 / 56°27'57"N
Longitude: -2.9679 / 2°58'4"W
OS Eastings: 340458
OS Northings: 730837
OS Grid: NO404308
Mapcode National: GBR ZB4.PY
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.CRY1
Plus Code: 9C8VF28J+9R
Entry Name: Forebank Dyeworks, 88 Victoria Road, Dundee
Listing Name: 88 Victoria Road and Return Elevation to Forebank Road and Bonnybank Road, Bonnybank Apartments, Former Forebank Dyeworks (Front Block Only)
Listing Date: 15 August 1985
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361296
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25126
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200361296
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Coldside
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Alexander Johnston 1875, raised by 1 storey in 1895. 3-storey and attic 12-bay dyeworks, snecked rubble with polished margins. Rounded angles corbelled to square at 1st floor. Arched and keyblocked door at SW angle inscribed "Forebank Dye Works". 2 arched ground floor loading doors altered to windows. Main cornice below attic level windows (added 1985). 3-bay E and W gables with round-headed windows at attic. Skewed gables with ball finials (missing). Slate roof and fire-break gable at midpoint. N elevation had been adjoining dyeing sheds etc, now harled. Windows were originally 10-pane top-hoppers, now radically altered.
INTERIOR: originally wooden-floored on cast-iron columns.
A long established dyeworks owned by J and F Stevenson who on moving to Lawside Dyeworks, sold it to their manager William Watson in 1895 following a destructive fire. Front converted to flats in 1984-5.
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