14 Windsor Street, Dundee

The terrace at 1-28 Windsor Street, Dundee, dates from around 1851 to 1872. It is a long building that combines neo-classical and Renaissance architectural styles, with the northern section incorporating designs by James MacLaren, and the overall form stepped down towards the river. The terrace comprises a sequence of houses, grouped in pairs.

Nos. 1-8 are severe neo-classical in style, constructed in ashlar stone (some of which is painted). These are two-storey houses with four pairs of three-bay arrangements, each pair featuring two centrally placed architraved and corniced doorways. The first-floor windows have aprons, and the building is topped by a main cornice, balustrade, and an M-shaped slate roof with ridge stacks. Nos. 2 and 3 are slightly recessed.

Nos. 9-18 are five stepped pairs of three-bay Renaissance-style houses, with basements from No. 11 onwards. Two central doorways are topped with consoled pediments, and the windows are set within lugged architraves, with segmentally arched heads over the doors. These are keystoned. The building features a main cornice, a balustrade (missing from Nos. 9, 10, 17 and 18), and platformed slate roofs with four round-headed dormers containing casement windows, except for Nos. 17 and 18.

Nos. 19 and 20 are single, stepped, four-bay houses similarly styled to Nos. 9-18. No. 19 has a pedimented doorpiece in the third bay, which was moved to the fourth bay, and cornicing. No. 19 has three round-headed dormers. Balustrades are missing from both.

No. 21 is a five-bay house exhibiting a similar style, with a central, pedimented doorpiece, a balustrade, and dormers. Nos. 22 and 23 are similarly styled, single-stepped, three-bay houses with pedimented doorpieces on the left, balustrades, and two dormers each.

Nos. 24, 25, and 26 are single-stepped three-bay houses. No. 24 has consoled cornices to the left-hand doors, roll-moulded windows, and segmental arches at first-floor level. Dormers were removed from No. 24 (updated in 2020); the balustrade and dormers are missing from No. 25, and No. 26 features two dormers.

Nos. 27 and 28 are paired three-bay houses with paired, centrally placed, consoled pedimented doorways. The windows have margins and segmental arches at the first floor, with label stops. The building has a cornice, but the balustrade is missing. No. 28 has two round-headed dormers. Most windows are two-pane sash and case, although some original 12-pane windows remain at Nos. 1 and 8. Original T-shape casement dormer windows are also present. Slate roofs and ridge stacks are a feature throughout.