48, Abbey Street

No. 48 Abbey Street is a house and restaurant that was originally a house and workshop. It dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with later alterations and a 19th-century workshop. The building features painted brick walls on a chamfered plinth and has a graduated greenslate roof with 20th-century brick chimney stacks.

The structure is two storeys high and has four bays. The right three bays are symmetrical and include a central panelled door set in a bolection architrave, which has a pulvinated frieze and cornice. There are sash windows with glazing bars in a 19th-century painted stone surround, and to the left, there is an 18th-century sash window with glazing bars set in brick reveals beneath a flattened arch with a false keystone. Notably, the left return wall is built partly on the reduced medieval wall of the adjoining Priory of St Mary.

Although the interior was not inspected, it is historically significant as it served as a school in the early 19th century, where Thomas Bouch, the engineer known for the ill-fated Tay Bridge, was a pupil.