Royal Hotel, 1-7 Union Street, Dundee

The Royal Hotel, located at 1-7 Union Street in Dundee, is an earlier 19th-century building that was remodeled and had an attic floor added by James MacLaren and Sons in 1892. This four-storey structure features classical detailing and includes shops on the ground floor, situated prominently on a corner site. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar with a slate and lead Mansard roof. The ground floor is partly adorned with pilastered polished granite, and it has a corniced ground floor, a cill band at the second floor, and a corniced and panelled parapet.

The windows on the first floor are architraved and corniced, while those on the second floor are architraved. The octagonal dormer angle tower features stilted-arch windows, and the pedimented dormers and wallhead stacks have keystoned segmental windows. The building is fitted with 2-pane timber sash and case glazing, and it has ridge stacks along with shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks that rise from the parapets of the two-windowed dormers, which have angle ball-finials on the Union Street elevation.

On the Union Street elevation, the building has a seven-bay facade with a moulded doorcase at the center, which is partly obscured by a later canopy. The shopfronts to the left and right have been slightly altered. There are seven windows on the first, second, and third floors, along with a wallhead stack dormer and four single dormers. A further segmental bay is recessed at the angle on the right, featuring a pilastered doorcase on the ground floor (with the door blocked as a window), a window on the first, second, and third floors, and an octagonal dormer tower with swagged eaves, a facetted slate roof, and a domed lantern.

The Nethergate elevation has slightly altered shopfronts on the ground floor, a tripartite window on the first floor (with the center consoled and blocked) flanked by single windows, and four windows on the second and third floors. There is a wallhead stack dormer flanked by single dormers, and a large gable stack is located at the right return gable. The interior has not been seen.