Chamber Of Commerce, Panmure Street, Dundee

This is a late 1850s, Flemish Gothic-style Chamber of Commerce building located on a corner site in Dundee, designed by David Bryce and constructed between 1854 and 1855. Later internal alterations were undertaken by T Lindsay Gray in 1954. The building is rectangular in plan, with a prominent three-stage tower. It is composed of a two-storey and attic main block, alongside simpler single and three-storey sections to the rear.

The building is primarily built from cream-coloured, stugged ashlar sandstone, with rubble and ashlar dressings on the rear elevation. The roof is covered in grey slate. Architectural details include a base course, a cill course to the first floor, and a corniced wallhead. The ground floor features cross windows with roll-moulded architraves and shouldered heads, while the first floor has tall transomed and mullioned windows with banded colonette architraves and moulded cornices that connect to the wallhead. Buttressed and pedimented dormers break through an open-work parapet, which is adorned with crocketted finials and traceried pointed-arch windows. The tower incorporates pointed-arch windows on its second stage, and round-arched windows on the third, all richly finialled and decorated. Depression-arch moulded doorcases are similarly decorated. Gable-coped crowstepped gables are present.

The front elevation features a central left door flanked by oculi, with windows to either side. The left return elevation has three windows on both the ground and first floors, with a pointed-arch window with a hoodmould above the gable. An octagonal stair tower, topped with a finialled, facetted roof, is inset on the left side. The Meadowside elevation displays a tower on the left, windowed on the first, second, and third stages. A small canted stair tower is present to the right, with a three-bay gable to the far right. The rear elevation, facing Royal Exchange Lane, includes a single-storey block to the left with a door and paired twelve-pane windows. A three-storey, four-bay piend-roofed block is situated to the right. This section has twelve-pane sash and case windows on the ground and first floors, and three on the second floor, with pedimented dormerheads. The interior of the building was not inspected.