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St Helens, 474 Perth Road, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4557 / 56°27'20"N

Longitude: -3.0129 / 3°0'46"W

OS Eastings: 337671

OS Northings: 729741

OS Grid: NO376297

Mapcode National: GBR Z55.WZ

Mapcode Global: WH7R9.PZHW

Plus Code: 9C8RFX4P+7R

Entry Name: St Helens, 474 Perth Road, Dundee

Listing Name: 474 Perth Road St Helens House, Lodge, Gatepiers and Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 4 February 1965

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361974

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25628

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200361974

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: West End

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: House

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Description

Charles Wilson, 1850, extended in twentieth century.
Vigorous Scots Baronial, 2-storey, ashlar villa. All gables
crowstepped with strapworked pediments to single light
windows at 1st floor. Most windows have roll-moulded
architraves. Continuous ground floor cill-course.
E elevation: Roman Doric columned portico with strapworked
parapet in advanced left gable. Single windows centre.
Advanced central 2-storey and attic gable, 3-light ground
floor window shallow advanced with stepped parapet. Attic
light flanked by corbelled turrets. Single storey and attic
wing to N with later dormer and advanced gable.
Tower: at re-entrant SW angle, corbelled out from circular
to square plan. Single lights at top stage, corbelled eaves,
pyramidal roof and weather-vane.
S elevation: advanced gabled bay to right, canted window
with strapworked parapet at ground floor. Projecting
northern bay vestibule with Venetian treatment, circled
windows over with swagged gabletheads.
W elevation: 2 advanced gables with ground-floor canted bays,
that at right with strapworked parapet. Centre altered stair
window.
Tall ashlar stacks with separate octagonal shafts.
Slate roofs, fish-scale at turrets. Sash and case windows,
2- and 4-pane glazing pattern, lying-panes to service wings.
2-storey harled addition at NW.
Rear 2-storey U-plan service ranges, with additions.
INTERIOR: subdivided but retains notable plasterwork,
mirrored overmantle.
LODGE: single storey, L-plan stugged ashlar, Crowstepped
gables, canted V-window to W. Crowstepped porch in re-entrant
angle with flat-roofed extension. Slate-hung addition to S.
Chamfered stacks, slate roofs. Windows sash and case, 2-pane
glazing pattern.
Ashlar gatepiers and stepped shouldered arched pedestrian
entrance with armorial. Boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

For John Symers, Banker. Subdivided. Parapet over main

dntrance damaged circa 1980.

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