15 South Tay Street, Dundee

This is a terrace of ten classically-detailed houses built between 1818 and 1829 by David Neave, situated on a slight slope. The terrace is arranged as mirror-image pairs, with the central and end pairs slightly projecting. The front facades are constructed from sandstone ashlar, while the rear is of rubble. The roofs are piended and covered with grey slate, featuring corniced ridge stacks.

The South Tay Street elevation features a band course at ground floor level, a cill band to the first floor, and a moulded wallhead course with corniced stepped blocking to each pair of houses, accentuated by margined angles. The ground floor windows of the projecting bays are architraved and corniced, while those in the recessed bays are margined with consoled lintels; the first-floor windows at numbers 1, 3, and 5 are architraved, and most upper floor windows elsewhere are margined. Many original 12-pane timber sash and case windows remain, although some have been altered to 2- and 4-pane glazing. Numbers 25 and 27 have lowered first-floor windows with distinctive anthemion-pattern cast-iron balconies; number 27 retains 12-pane glazing, while number 25 has 2-pane glazing. Later canted dormers have been added to numbers 7 and 9, and a larger, out-of-character box dormer is present at numbers 11 and 13. The front doors are approached by steps that oversail the basement and are set within round-headed doorcases with fanlights, featuring Ionic-columned doorpieces in the central bay and Ionic-pilastered doorpieces in the outer bays. Recessed bays have square-headed fanlights and moulded doorcases with consoled pediments. The rear elevation is plain, constructed of rubble and featuring margined sash and case windows, mostly with 12 panes. The joins in the masonry indicate the construction occurred in stages.

The Nethergate elevation is four-storey and ten bays wide, with slightly altered shopfronts on the corniced ground floor. It also has a cill band to the second floor and a moulded wallhead course with corniced blocking. Architraved and corniced windows are present on the first floor, while the second and third floors have margined windows. Original 12-pane timber sash and case windows are largely retained, although modern 2-pane glazing is found on the third floor of the third to fifth bays from the left. The second bay from the left and right has been blinded on all upper floors. There are two corniced and houldered wallhead stacks, with a similar stack visible on the right return gable.

The interiors of numbers 1-11 feature simple wrought-iron stair balusters. Numbers 15-27 boast Corinthian-columned entrance hall screens with plaster ceilings and ornate cast-iron stair balusters with oval wells and cupolas, along with pilastered doorpieces and some good plaster cornices. Wrought- and cast-iron railings are situated along the South Tay Street elevation.