Carolina House, 133 Broughty Ferry Road, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1989. Institution.
Carolina House, 133 Broughty Ferry Road, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- scarred-tallow-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1989
- Type
- Institution
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
William Chalmers 1869-70. Prominent 2-storey and attic 11-bay French Renaissance institution. Snecked rubble with painted ashlar quoins and dressings.
Elevation to street: single-storey and basement with 2-storey centre. Doorpiece with curvilinear armorial under recessed 2-light arched window with gablet inscription "Dundee Orphan Institution erected by Public Subscription 1870". Flanking round-arched keyblocked windows 2-bay projecting wings with segmental arched windows and blind round arched windows at attic gables.
Conservatories in basement areas: that to left with brattished roof, that to right 20th century with taller gabled centre.
S elevation: advanced 3-storey 3-bay pavilion-roofed centre, ground floor door with tall arched stair window over and stepped parapet with ball finial. Flanking bays canted at ground and 1st, round-headed 2-light windows with curvilinear gablets over. Advanced segmental arched bipartite wings with 3-bay links. Small round arched dormers to links, bipartite ashlar wallhead dormers to pavilion roofs, those to W unfortunately modernised.
Side elevations 4-bay with segmental-arched bipartites. Flanking single-storey service wings.
Slate roofs with iron brattishing, missing from platformed pavilioans. Central octagonal fleche with swept slate roof, now boarded, finial missing.
Rubble-built boundary wall with cast and wrought-iron railings, erected after the widening of Broughty Ferry Road.
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