Forester's Halls, 6 Nicoll Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1995. Public building. 2 related planning applications.
Forester's Halls, 6 Nicoll Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-jamb-moon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1995
- Type
- Public building
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Forester's Halls, located at 6 Nicoll Street, Dundee, is a 3-storey public building dating to 1901. It represents an Art Nouveau refronting of an earlier structure. The front facade is constructed from stugged and snecked red sandstone rubble, while the sides and rear are built of stugged and snecked cream sandstone rubble. The roof is slate-covered, and it originally featured pyramidal and slated towers to Nicoll Street, which were destroyed by fire and are now flat.
The Nicoll Street elevation has a base course and a band course to the second floor, topped by a corniced open-work parapet to the towers, featuring chamfered and domed angle dies. A frieze to the centre is missing. Multi-pane timber sash and case windows are present on the ground and first floors; upper floor windows have been bricked up. The building is three bays wide, with the centre bay recessed between the flanking towers. A depressed arch doorway is flanked by single windows, approached by steps with cast-iron corkscrew railings on the flanks. A wide depressed arch above displays a sculpted frieze reading "Foresters Halls 1901" to what was once a balcony, now containing a more modern flat-roofed block. The second floor features three round-headed and stilted windows. A balcony door is visible on the left stair tower, which has a consoled pediment with egg and dart moulding displaying the Ancient Order of Foresters insignia within its tympanum. A transomed window on the first floor has three ventilator slit-type openings above it. The right-hand stair tower is similar, but its keystoned oculus has been altered to a door.
The Rattray Street elevation is three storeys high and includes a brick gable. It features timber sash and case windows, with single panes at the bottom and six panes at the top. Security grilles are fitted to the ground floor windows, and windows on the upper floors are bricked up. A consoled and pedimented door is centrally positioned, with egg and dart moulding and the Ancient Order of Foresters insignia. There are two windows of differing sizes to the left and right, and four to the first floor, including a larger window to the left and a tall goods window to the right, complete with a hoist beam. Three more windows are located on the second floor. A single bay to the far left contains a ground floor door and window, with two stair windows above, and this bay connects to No. 5 Rattray Street.
The interior has been entirely reconstructed and holds no particular architectural interest, except for the two stair towers, which retain good wrought-iron balusters.
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