Queen's Hotel, Nethergate, Dundee

The Queen's Hotel, located on Nethergate in Dundee, was designed by John Young and Andrew Meldrum in 1878. This large, four-storey hotel with an attic is built in an L-plan and features a Gothic facade, complete with triple attic French roofs on the angle pavilions. The front is made of ashlar stone, while the sides and rear are constructed from rubble. The hotel has Mansard slate roofs and features sash and case windows, with 2-pane timber glazing at the front and some 4- and 8-pane windows at the sides and rear.

The north elevation is symmetrical, showcasing large, advanced two-window end bays with shouldered ground floor shopfronts. The central section has a three-window gable. The hotel entrance is flanked by stiff-leaf capitalled piers and features a modern fascia. A balcony with a quatrefoil decorated parapet is present. The first and second floors have pointed-arch windows with nook shafts, while the third floor has square-headed bipartite windows. The first-floor windows are cusped and transomed, with corbelled cills on the second and third floors. There are hoodmoulds and linking cill and impost-level band courses. A central gabled stack is adorned with four attic lancets. The end bays have a corbelled cornice and a parapet pierced with quatrefoils, topped with steep French pavilion roofs that include three tiers of gabled dormers.

The east elevation features a curved chamfered corner and two return bays with similar detailing. A large shouldered wallhead stack flanks the pavilion. To the left, there are six bays of plain rubble with minimal details, except for one first-floor window that has cusps and a transom. This elevation also includes six dormers, two large ridge stacks, and one wallhead stack.

The west elevation is built of rubble and is mostly blind, except for two slit windows. It features a large wallhead stack.

The south elevation presents a plain four-storey gable with a Mansard attic and three bays. There is a five-storey, three-light stair tower in the re-entrant angle, along with one- and two-storey basement service wings to the left.

Inside, the hotel boasts Jacobethan plaster ceilings in the Queen's Bar, lounge, and restaurant, which display the arms of Dundee. The interior also features stout timber stair balusters and panels, though the remainder has been redecorated and fire partitioned.

In front of the hotel, there are two cast-iron lamp standards with ladder bars, although the lantern is missing from the left-hand lamp standard as of 1994. Additionally, at the south boundary, there is a former sea wall built of rubble, which has small windows inserted for the former Palace Theatre that was destroyed by fire.