Lodge, New Industrial School For Girls, 309 Blackness Road, Dundee

James MacLaren and Sons, dated 1894. Scots Jacobean 2-storey courtyard-plan school. Snecked rubble with ashlar dressings,

symmetrical S front set back from road on elevated site.

3-storey central entrance tower, columned semi-circular

arched doorpiece with rusticated voussoirs, canted oriel

and bipartite with pedimented dormer-head above. Flanking

semi-circular turrets with strapwork decoration at 1st floor

and segmentally pedimented dormer-heads at 2nd floor windows, semi-conical roofs swept into pavilion roof with cast-iron

brattishing flanked by curvilinear gable stacks. Symmetrical

3-bay sections link to advanced outer wings, latter with

curvilinear gables, 2 bay with strapwork heads at 1st.

W elevation symmetrical, 3 windows (centre bipartites) either

side of central 2-window curvilinear gable.

E elevation: asymmetrical 8-bays with off-centre 2 by 2

bay wings with curvilinear gable and commemorative plaque.

Single-storey workshops and boundary at rear. Plain elevation

to courtyard, canopy awnings on simple cast-iron brackets

to 3 sides.

Interior largely altered and partitioned.

Cylindrical gatepiers with conical tops. Single-storey lodge

with canted bay, porch in angle. Low pitched broad eaved

roof with centre stack.

Low boundary walls with wrought-iron railings.