St Joseph's R. C. Boy's School, 126 Blackness Road, 124A, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1989. School.
St Joseph's R. C. Boy's School, 126 Blackness Road, 124A, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- muffled-quartz-vetch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1989
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Boys' School, located at 126 Blackness Road in Dundee, was designed by James H Langlands with assistance from W G Lamond and built between 1905 and 1906. This school features Art Nouveau details and is constructed from snecked bull-nosed rubble with ashlar dressings. It has a four-storey stepped frontage, highlighted by a taller stair tower facing the street. The entrance originally had a door with a semi-circular hood, which has since been converted into a window. The building includes mullioned windows with two and four lights, and curvilinear parapets atop the tower and central bay.
Adjacent to the main structure is a two-storey, six-bay classroom block that boasts large arched windows with original mullioned and transomed glazing. The block has a piended roof featuring a central louvred ventilator, broad eaves, and a flat dome. An extension designed by Wm Friskin was added in 1933, which is a two-storey polished ashlar structure with five bays set between splayed pilaster buttresses that rise from a plinth. The left three bays contain four windows each, while the right two bays have smaller three-high windows on each floor. The original stair tower also has a polished ashlar face.
Inside, the school features a plainly tiled square stairwell. The corridor leading to the classrooms is illuminated by large arched windows similar to those on the west elevation, with a 1933 concrete and brick extension to the east. The rear of the 1933 block opens to a yard at ground level, while the first-floor corridor is cantilevered out on a concrete floor.
The original block is adorned with wrought iron Art Nouveau railings in the re-entrant area, and steel railings were added to the playground and reinstated along Blackness Road in 2002.
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