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Redcroft, 432 Blackness Road, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.459 / 56°27'32"N

Longitude: -3.0195 / 3°1'10"W

OS Eastings: 337266

OS Northings: 730114

OS Grid: NO372301

Mapcode National: GBR Z4F.4X

Mapcode Global: WH7R9.LXBB

Plus Code: 9C8RFX5J+H5

Entry Name: Redcroft, 432 Blackness Road, Dundee

Listing Name: 432 Blackness Road, Redcroft with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers (Excluding Lodges)

Listing Date: 30 June 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361612

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25392

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, 432 Blackness Road, Redcroft

ID on this website: 200361612

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: West End

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

Leslie Ower, completed 1898. Large 2-storey red ashlar
Arts and Crafts house.
S elevation asymmetrical 3-bay, right bay advanced, 1-3-1
ground 1-4-1, light 1st floor window mock half-timbered
gable, 2 small windows with modern glazing. Ground floor
verandah to left, modern conservatory added at centre,
stained glass screen and slate roof with projecting eaves
also over advanced tripartite, at left. Single and bipartite
windows at 1st with gablet heads breaking eaves. Near
contemporary 1-storey W wing with canted bay and semi-
conical roof.
N and W elevations: steep swept gables, half-timbered at
attic level with bipartites, varied fenestration below.
Main entrance a timber porch in chamfered NW angle. Slightly
later W and E (service) wings. Stair window altered for
new outside stair and door to top flat.
Low 2-storey service wing at NE with piended dormers.
Windows mainly 9- or 12-pane upper sashes, single pane
lower. Gabled and piended red-tiled roofs with terracotta
finials. 4 prominent battered ashlar stacks.
Interior: original stair at 1st floor and attic survives.
Vestibule mosaic. Panelled hall ceiling, carved fireplaces.
Plaster cavetto ceilings in W wing (billiard room?).
Rubble-built boundary walls with cylindrical gatepiers
and conical caps.

Statement of Interest

Listing excludes altered lodges and conservatory. Built

for Wm C Leng, publisher of the Dundee Advertiser. He moved

out in 1904.

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