5 Blackness Avenue, Dundee

James MacLaren 1868-9, 3 4-storey tenements, coursed

rubble with ashlar details, stepped in fall of ground.

Nos 1 and 3: 3-bay with outer bays canted through 3 floors,

interlaced carving at aprons of 1st floor, balcony fronts

bipartite at 3rd floor. Shallow projecting pilastered

centre bay; centre stair door with side windows decorative

frieze and consoled cast-iron balcony (that at No 1 missing)

over. Bipartites above, finely detailed at 1st floor, between

pilaster strips and consoles, simpler detailing, 2nd and

3rd floors. Central vertically channelled wallhead stack.

Elevation to Hawkhill 4-bay with central consoled doorway

beneath shield inscribed "Gowrie Place 1868". Single and

bipartite windows, with scroll decoration at ground floor,

bracketted cills and cornices at 1st, aprons at 2nd and cill

course at 3rd floor.

No 5: 5-bay tenement in similar style but less finely

detailed than Nos 1 and 3, with end bays canted and central

bipartites over entrance. Cill-level band courses. Double

wallhead stack with central bipartite.

Slate roofs with ridge stacks. Pilaster strips mark party

walls between tenements and at angles with terminating urns.

Low boundary walls and square gatepiers.