Description

1901. Long single-storey brick-built former tram depot set back from Forfar Road.

W elevation: twin curvilinear gables in red and blue brick. Oculi over large tram doors; smaller flanking doors and windows with stone lintels. Sides: 40-bays of blind recessed panels.

Slate M-roof with N-lights and pyramidal ventilators.

Interior: twin-aisled timber roofs on single row of cast-iron columns. Low panelled boundary wall to front. Gatepiers missing.

Tramrails remain in setted courtyard in front of depot.

Statement of Interest

Now a Tayside Regional Council bus depot. The Dundee Corporation electric tram route to Maryfield opened on 6 March 1901. DundeeHs principal tram depot at Lochee has been demolished but a smaller, altered, one exists at Monifieth.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17807831

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey