5 Seagate, Dundee

41 and 43 Commercial Street in Dundee is a five-storey and attic building, designed by John Bruce in 1877, featuring Renaissance details. It stands on a corner site with seven bays facing Commercial Street and five bays on Seagate, along with a quadrant bay at the angle. The structure is built from sandstone ashlar and topped with a slate roof.

The ground floor has shopfronts with original piers, cast-iron columns, and a cornice. Above, the first floor is channelled with a cornice, while the second floor has a cill course. The third floor features a frieze with dentilled and corbelled main cornice, and the building has a wallhead course and corniced eaves. The parapet is adorned with finialled dies and dormers, and there is a flat-topped dome at the angle covered in banded fishscale slates with a decorative iron parapet.

The windows are primarily single and paired, mostly with two-pane timber sash and case frames. The first floor has round-headed windows, the second floor features architraved windows with corbelled cills and sculpted cill panels, and pediments with swagged friezes. The third floor has architraved and shouldered windows with corbelled cills and decorative iron window guards. The fourth floor includes keystoned, pilastered, and round-headed windows, while aediculaed dormers are present as well. The Seagate elevation has a corniced and panelled wallhead stack, and corniced ridge stacks are found elsewhere.

On the Commercial Street elevation, there is a door to the centre left with a pilastered and keystoned round-headed doorpiece, flanked by shopfronts. The first floor has eight windows, while the second and third floors each have seven windows, with a two-storey canted oriel at the fourth bay from the left. The fourth floor has seven windows and five dormers, with the centre dormer featuring paired columns and a raised pediment. The quadrant bay at the left angle has a shopfront with a door on the ground floor, a tripartite window, and a dormer above, following the pattern of the other elevations.

The Seagate elevation mirrors this with a door to the centre left, also with a pilastered and keystoned round-headed doorpiece and flanked by shopfronts. It has five windows on each of the first, second, third, and fourth floors arranged in a 2-1-2 pattern, along with three dormers and a wallhead stack to the right. A giant pilaster is located at the left angle.

The interior has not been seen.