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26-8 High Street, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.46 / 56°27'35"N

Longitude: -2.9704 / 2°58'13"W

OS Eastings: 340296

OS Northings: 730181

OS Grid: NO402301

Mapcode National: GBR Z9Y.DB

Mapcode Global: WH7RB.BWRL

Plus Code: 9C8VF25H+XR

Entry Name: 26-8 High Street, Dundee

Listing Name: 26, 28 High Street

Listing Date: 30 March 1994

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361416

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25227

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, 26-8 High Street

ID on this website: 200361416

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: Maryfield

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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Description

Circa 1785. 4-storey and attic, commercial and tenement building on corner site. Painted rubble, probably formerly harled or lime plastered, painted ashlar dressings, piended grey slate roof. Modern shopfronts to ground floor, margined windows with timber casements and fixed panels above, leaded to 3rd floor; rusticated quoins, ashlar-coped skews with skewblocks, angle die; brick stacks.

HIGH STREET ELEVATION: 5-bay, arranged 1-2-1-1; shopfronts to ground floor, 5 windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor symmetrically arranged, wallhead gable to centre with 2 small windows.

CRICHTON STREET ELEVATION: 3-bay; shopfronts to ground floor, paired and 2 single windows to 1st floor, 3 windows to 2nd and 3rd floor (centre windows blocked).

INTERIOR: not seen.

Statement of Interest

This building is situated at the corner of Crichton Street which was begun in 1779, being the first to connect High Street/Nethergate with the harbour.

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