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YMCA Main Block, 151 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in The Ferry, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4677 / 56°28'3"N

Longitude: -2.8772 / 2°52'37"W

OS Eastings: 346050

OS Northings: 730958

OS Grid: NO460309

Mapcode National: GBR VN.3FN6

Mapcode Global: WH7RC.SP2P

Plus Code: 9C8VF49F+34

Entry Name: YMCA Main Block, 151 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

Listing Name: Broughty Ferry, 151 Brook Street, Ymca Mainblock

Listing Date: 29 October 1991

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 407057

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25766

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200407057

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: The Ferry

Traditional County: Angus

Description

Circa 1825. Single storey, 4-bay, and 2-storey, 3-bay, former schoolroom and schoolhouse. Coursed dark rubble, polished ashlar margins; coursers at right (coursed rubble at sides), slate roof.

S ELEVATION: single storey schoolroom set-back at left; 3 sash and case windows, plate glass lower sash, 2-pane upper; 1 blocked window at right; gable at left with coped stack.

HOUSE: at right, slightly later; margined angles, base course, cill course at 1st floor, eaves course, coped skews, moulded stacks, 12-pane sash and case glazing. Central doorpiece with consoles and block pediment, fanlight; flanking windows with bracketted cills and moulded margins. 3 margined windows at 1st floor flanked by large affixed letters 'YMCA'.

N ELEVATION: modern additions at ground floor, three 12-pane sash and case windows at 1st floor.

Statement of Interest

Buildings erected as school by Thomas Erskine of Linthlathen during the 1820s; gifted to Broughty Ferry YMCA (established 1866) in 1874 by their president, Alexander Jefferson Buist.

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