19 Lyon Street, Dundee

1866-7 Terrace of 5 tenements built for the millworkers

of Dens Works. 4-storey coursed and squared rubble-built

tenements with rear platties.

Elevation to Lyon Street 29-bay, comprising 5 6-bay

tenements, end block by Albert Street 5-bay. Ground floor

band course. Alternate doors altered to windows. 3 pends.

Side elevations 2-bay, blind to Erskine Street: wallhead

stack removed. Chamfered angle to Albert Street with

ground floor shopfront, 1 bay blind. Shouldered wallhead

stack.

Rear: 5 open-topped semi-circular stair towers with

flagstone platforms on curved iron brackets and light iron

(altered to steel in 4 cases) framework. Brick blockings

where lavatory towers were added and subsequently removed.

4 stair towers harled.

Piended slate roof, replaced by concrete tiles excepting

Nos 1-7. Tall ridge stacks removed.

REF Wendy Wilkinson "Housing and Health" in BAXTERS OF

DUNDEE Ed AJ Cooke (1980) pp42, 55-58

E Gauldie (Ed) THE DUNDEE TEXTILE INDUSTRY, 1790-1885.

FROM THE PAPERS OF PETER CARMICHAEL OF ARTHURSTONE (1969).