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

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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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