Whisky Bond, 38-40 Seagate, Dundee

The Whisky Bond, located at 38-40 Seagate in Dundee, is a four-storey bonded store built in 1897 in the Jacobethan style. The building features a red ashlar front and includes a basement and attic.

The main facade is nearly symmetrical, with a pend on the left side and bays arranged in a pattern of 5-1-3-1-5. It has wide entrance bays with two arched entrances; one is adorned with heavy consoles, strapwork, and urn decoration, while the other serves as a loading bay. Above these entrances, there are four storeys of three-light mullioned and transomed windows, framed by slim ogee-capped turrets that project from the first floor. The central bay has cross windows, while the other windows consist of single transomed lights with six-pane upper cases. Cill courses are present on the first and third floors. The facade is topped with a main corbelled cornice, a crenellated parapet featuring shaped and crow-stepped gables, oculi, and ball finials. The roof is slate-covered.

At the rear, the building has mid to late 19th-century coursed rubble construction, consisting of two and four-storey sections, which belonged to an earlier bonded store.

Inside, the entrance vestibule retains a mosaic floor along with remnants of elaborately tiled walls and ceiling. The interior features timber floors supported by steel beams and a single row of cast-iron columns on the lower floors. A stone spine wall from the older bond is supported at lower levels by rectangular cast-iron pillars and an arcade. The roofs are constructed with timber collar beams.