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Latitude: 56.4534 / 56°27'12"N
Longitude: -2.991 / 2°59'27"W
OS Eastings: 339019
OS Northings: 729468
OS Grid: NO390294
Mapcode National: GBR Z7K.YS
Mapcode Global: WH7RJ.1202
Plus Code: 9C8VF235+9J
Entry Name: Institute For The Blind, 59 Magdalen Yard Road, Dundee
Listing Name: 59 Magdalen Yard Road, Royal Dundee Institution for the Blind, (Building Fronting Magdalen Yard Road Only) with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 30 June 1989
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361710
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25478
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200361710
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: West End
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Alexander Johnston, 1883. Prominently sited gothic alms-house, 2-storey rubble with contrasting long and short ashlar dressings.
2-storey, 9-bay buttressed main front with advanced gabled wings. Central slightly advanced ashlar gable with moulded chamfered Tudor arched hood-moulded doorway between slit windows. Bay corbelled out to sides at ground floor lintel level, trefoil-pierced band course becoming gabled string course with trefoil and finial over door. 2 1st floor windows, inscription in gable, skewputts, gablet and fleur de lis finial.
2 linking bays to either side, chamfered windows, bipartite at ground, single at 1st with buttresses between.
Advanced 2-bay gabled wings with angle and ceiling buttresses, left side bipartite both floors, quatrefoil and fleur de lis finialed gablet.
Right side larger and more advanced; ground floor bipartite. 1st floor (Hall) cusped gothic cross windows with hood-moulds. Quatrefoil fleur de lis finial gablet.
Modern glazing pattern.
Slate roofs. Central pyramidal-roofed fleche louvred lower portion, slated above. Wrought-iron finial.
Slightly later additions in same style to either side of main block, 1-storey 1-bay bipartite gable to E. Set back 2-storey gabled block to W with buttress at angle and snecked rubble elevation to Step Row, battered wallhead stack.
Low boundary wall to Magdalen Yard Road with skewed ashlar piers, modern railings. Monumental over-arched gateway reduced to same scale as other piers.
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