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Latitude: 56.4629 / 56°27'46"N
Longitude: -2.97 / 2°58'11"W
OS Eastings: 340328
OS Northings: 730502
OS Grid: NO403305
Mapcode National: GBR Z9Y.67
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.BTZC
Plus Code: 9C8VF27J+42
Entry Name: Caledonian Insurance Company, 33, 35 Albert Square, Dundee
Listing Name: 33, 35 Meadowside or Albert Square
Listing Date: 4 February 1965
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361539
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25327
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, 33, 35 Albert Square, Caledonian Insurance Company
ID on this website: 200361539
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Architectural structure
John Murray Robertson, 1886. 3-storey and attic, 2-bay commercial building. Red sandstone ashlar to front, rubble local sandstone elsewhere, grey slate roof. Ground floor slightly advanced; projecting windows with bowed angle lights to 1st and 2nd floors supporting full-width sculpted parapet, sculpted frieze between floors; dutch gable with paired bipartite pilastered windows and semi-circular sunflower pattern lintel panels, sunflower motifs at volutes, strapwork pattern sculpture at tympanum; timber sash and case frames, single pane to bottom, multi-pane to top; margined angles to upper floors, ball-finialled round-section to top acting as rainwater heads with mask
gargoyles.
FRONT ELEVATION: 4-panelled and reeded oak door with 2 herm motifs to right, 5-light window to left with stop-chamfered mullions; two 2-storey projecting windows to 1st and 2nd floors, dutch-gabled attic floor.
INTERIOR: not seen.
Formerly the Caledonian Insurance building; John Murray Robertson had his own offices here.
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