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Latitude: 56.4554 / 56°27'19"N
Longitude: -2.9921 / 2°59'31"W
OS Eastings: 338950
OS Northings: 729695
OS Grid: NO389296
Mapcode National: GBR Z7G.G4
Mapcode Global: WH7RJ.00GH
Plus Code: 9C8VF245+54
Entry Name: Dundee Rope Works Tar House, 11 Step Row, Dundee
Listing Name: 11 Step Row, Former Dundee Rope Works Tar House
Listing Date: 30 June 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362080
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25679
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200362080
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: West End
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1815-1820. Tar house connected with Dundee Ropeworks.
2-storey rubble-built industrial vernacular.
E gable: ground floor large doorway with steel lintel,
formerly segmental-arched, small window to side. 1st floor
loading door and sash and case window. Attic opening for
timber hoist with pulley. Rings for flag-pole. Skew putts
and flat-topped finial. W gable similar, blocked segmental
arch and attic hoist opening.
S elevation: ground floor 2 doors, 2 windows and 2 wide
segmental arched openings, some partially blocked. 8 1st
floor 12-pane sash and case windows, 1 altered to receive an
overhead gangway.
N elevation: 3 ground floor and 7 blocked 1st floor windows.
Bases of 3 wallhead stacks (for boiling tar?)
Long associated with the Dundee Rope Works of A and H Buick.
A section of Bell's Rope Walk with a corrugated-iron roof
survives but is excluded from the list. Dundee Rope Works
mainly demolished.
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