The Speedwell Bar, 165-167 Perth Road, Dundee

John Bruce and Son 1903. 4-storey tenement on gusset site,

coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, ground floor public house

with outstanding interior.

Elevation to Perth Road: original ground floor public house

front of painted ashlar, 2 doors with mosaic floors,

large plate glass windows with Art Nouveau etching, original

lettering to rear of seating. Bipartites and 2 single

lights over, in lugged architraves at 1st, corniced at 2nd

and corbelled linking cill courses at 2nd and 3rd. Central

wallhead stack with plaque and corbelled cornice. Canted

corner with recessed chamfer to left, windows similarly

detailed, pedimented at 2nd.

Elevation to Ford's Lane plain, rubble-built with stepped-up

wallhead stack. Blank N gable with stack. 3 windows to rear.

Corbelled out ridge stack.

Slate roofs with facetted angle turret and wrought-iron

weather vane. Windows sash and case, 2-pane glazing pattern.

INTERIOR of public house remarkably complete: L-plan public

bar divided by glazed wooden screen with urn finials.

Art Nouveau etched glass to bar screens. Dark wood gantry

and dado panelling. Anaglypta Jacobean ceiling. 2 sitting

rooms with dado panelling, fireplaces, dentil cornices

and borrowed lights. Gents: mosaic floor and original fittings.