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Claremont Lodge, 47 Grove Road, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4723 / 56°28'20"N

Longitude: -2.8913 / 2°53'28"W

OS Eastings: 345188

OS Northings: 731489

OS Grid: NO451314

Mapcode National: GBR VM.H4CZ

Mapcode Global: WH7RC.KLD3

Plus Code: 9C8VF4C5+WF

Entry Name: Claremont Lodge, 47 Grove Road, Dundee

Listing Name: West Ferry, 47 Grove Road, Claremont Lodge, Including Wall and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 4 February 1965

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 362414

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25943

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200362414

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: The Ferry

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Gatehouse

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Description

W B D Keith, (really Vernon Constable), 1921. Single storey and attic, square-plan, classical-style lodge. Sandstone ashlar with snecked rubble at recessed window panels, grey slate roof. Base course, entablature with moulded architrave, cornice and blocking course; 12-pane sash and case windows, semi-circular leaded lunette-dormers with small-pane casements to attic; pyramidal roof with corniced apex stack, 4 uniform cans.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay, symmetrical. 6-panel 2-leaf door at centre with fanlight and moulded doorcase, engaged Ionic column doorpiece supporting slightly advanced entablature, lunette-dormer above; windows at left and right in slightly recessed rectangular panels.

N ELEVATION: door with fanlight in recessed panel at left window adjoining at right; round-headed multi-pane stair window at centre with cornice and parapet breaking through entablature; blank panel at right.

E AND W ELEVATION: 2 windows in slightly recessed panels as at S, lunette-dormer above.

WALL AND GATEPIERS: boundary wall at E with 2 capped gatepiers; 2 further gatepiers with mannered caps forming quadrant.

INTERIOR: original chimneypieces; scale and platt staircase with timber geometric design balusters.

Statement of Interest

The lodge was built when Claremont (61 AlbanyRoad/102 Strathern Road, listed separately) was enlarged by W B D Keith William Boyd of Keillers; the quadrant and gatepiers form part of the entrance to Claremont.

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