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Latitude: 56.4567 / 56°27'24"N
Longitude: -2.9954 / 2°59'43"W
OS Eastings: 338748
OS Northings: 729843
OS Grid: NO387298
Mapcode National: GBR Z74.8Z
Mapcode Global: WH7R9.YZR2
Plus Code: 9C8VF243+MR
Entry Name: 1 Blackness Avenue, Dundee
Listing Name: 1, 3, 5 Blackness Avenue and 299 Hawkhill with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 30 June 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361585
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25364
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200361585
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: West End
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Tenement
James MacLaren 1868-9, 3 4-storey tenements, coursed
rubble with ashlar details, stepped in fall of ground.
Nos 1 and 3: 3-bay with outer bays canted through 3 floors,
interlaced carving at aprons of 1st floor, balcony fronts
bipartite at 3rd floor. Shallow projecting pilastered
centre bay; centre stair door with side windows decorative
frieze and consoled cast-iron balcony (that at No 1 missing)
over. Bipartites above, finely detailed at 1st floor, between
pilaster strips and consoles, simpler detailing, 2nd and
3rd floors. Central vertically channelled wallhead stack.
Elevation to Hawkhill 4-bay with central consoled doorway
beneath shield inscribed "Gowrie Place 1868". Single and
bipartite windows, with scroll decoration at ground floor,
bracketted cills and cornices at 1st, aprons at 2nd and cill
course at 3rd floor.
No 5: 5-bay tenement in similar style but less finely
detailed than Nos 1 and 3, with end bays canted and central
bipartites over entrance. Cill-level band courses. Double
wallhead stack with central bipartite.
Slate roofs with ridge stacks. Pilaster strips mark party
walls between tenements and at angles with terminating urns.
Low boundary walls and square gatepiers.
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