2, 4 Whitehall Street, Dundee

This is a late 19th-century commercial building on a corner site, located at 2 and 4 Whitehall Street and 4 and 6 Nethergate, Dundee. It is four stories high with an attic, and has shopfronts on the ground floor. A distinctive feature is the octagonal turret at the corner, rising to a fifth storey and topped with a finialled, faceted dome.

The building is constructed of cream sandstone ashlar, with a grey slate Mansard roof and fishscale slates covering the dome. Architectural details include a modillioned cornice at the ground floor, an open-work parapet above, lintel and cill bands to the first and second floors, a consoled and modillioned main cornice over the second floor with a fluted and dentilled lintel band, and a corniced wallhead course with a balustraded parapet. Pilasters are positioned at the left and right angles, each topped with swagged urn finials. The windows are predominantly architraved, single, bi-, and tripartite, with various decorative details. The angle window features a canted design, and a five-light window. First-floor windows have triangular and segmental pediments, second-floor windows have nook shafts and pilasters, third-floor windows are shouldered with mannered volutes, and the fourth-floor angle window is keystoned and pilastered. Most windows feature two-pane timber sash and case glazing, while corniced ridge stacks are topped with mostly uniform cream cans.

The Whitehall Street elevation includes a modern shopfront dating from 1993, with a close door to the right. Above are single windows, a tripartite window to the right, and angle windows to the left, extending up to the third floor. The turret is situated on the left at the fourth floor, incorporating a segmental and bipartite dormer.

The Nethergate elevation also has modern shopfronts on the ground floor, and windows to each upper floor. These comprise a bipartite window, a canted window, a single window, a bipartite window, and a single window from left to right. There are two keystoned and round-headed dormers, and three bipartite box dormers.

The interior of the building has not been inspected.