Queen's Hotel, Nethergate, Dundee

John Young and Andrew Meldrum, 1878. Large 4-storey and attic, L-plan hotel with Gothic facade and triple attic French roofs to angle pavilions; single and 2-storey buildings to rear re-entrant. Ashlar front and 2 return bays, rubble elsewhere, Mansard slate roofs. Sash and case windows, 2-pane timber glazing to front, some at sides and rear 4- and 8-pane.

N ELEVATION: symmetrical, advanced large 2-window end bays with shouldered ground floor shopfronts. 3-window gabled centre. Hotel entrance between stiff-leaf capitalled piers with modern fascia. Balcony with quatrefoil decorated parapet. !st and 2nd floor pointed-arch windows with nook shafts, 3rd floor square-headed bipartites. Windows cusped and transomed at 1st. Corbelled cills at 2nd and 3rd. Hoodmoulds and linking cill and impost-level band courses. Central gabled stack with 4 attic lancets. End bays: corbelled cornice, parapet pierced with quatrefoils, steep French pavilion roofs with 3 tiers of gabled dormers.

E ELEVATION: curved chamfered corner and 2 return bays similarly detailed. Large shouldered wallhead stack flanks pavilion. 6 bays to left plain rubble with no details except cusps and transom to one 1st floor window. 6 dormers. 2 large ridge stacks and 1 wallhead stack.

W ELEVATION: rubble-built gable, blind except 2 slit windows. Large wallhead stack.

S ELEVATION: plain 4-storey and Mansard attic 3-bay gable. 5-storey 3-light stair tower in re-entrant angle. 1- and 2-storey and basement service wings to left.

INTERIOR: Jacobethan plaster ceilings in Queen's Bar, lounge and restaurant, with the arms of Dundee. Stout timber stair balusters and panels. Remainder redecorated and fire partitioned.

LAMPSTANDARDS: 2 cast-iron lampstandards to front with ladder bars, lantern missing from left hand lampstandard (1994).

FORMER SEA WALL AT S BOUNDARY: rubble built, small windows inserted for the former Palace Theatre (destroyed by fire).