293 Hawkhill, Dundee

James MacLaren, dated 1868. 5 Jacobean-style tenements

stepped in fall of ground. Coursed and squared rubble

with ashlar dressings.

Each tenement bounded by tall pilasters with urn finials.

Central ground floor consoled corniced doorpiece with

single and bipartite window to each side. Flat mouldings

at ground floor, bipartites with scrolled shields. 1st

floor windows pilastered and corniced, linked by aprons

to 2nd floor windows. Main band course. Tall wall-head

stack, lower part rubble-built, upper part ashlar with

flutings and apron panels. Single and bipartite dormers.

Steep pitched and platformed slate roof.

Cartouche over entrance to No 289 inscribed "C L Gowrie

Place 1868".

All windows sash and case, 4-pane glazing pattern to

single-lights, 2 panes to bipartites.

Each entrance approached by steps between elaborately

capped gatepiers. Low coped garden walls with wrought-iron

railings (missing from No 297).