3, 5, 7 West Bell Street, Dundee

Ireland and MacLaren, dated 1881. 3-storey, attic and basement, 5-bay hostel. Sandstone ashlar, channelled to ground floor, snecked rubble to rear, grey slate roof. Cill band to 1st and 2nd floor, consoled parapet with blind trefoil-headed panels; single, bi- and tripartite windows, architraved to ground, 1st and 2nd floor with diaper-pattern round-headed panels over ground floor, 2-pane timber sash and case glazing, 1 gabled and 4 round-headed dormers rising through parapet with astragalled windows and central hopper; large corniced ridge stacks with uniform cream cans.

FRONT ELEVATION: 2-leaf panelled door to centre approached by steps oversailing basement, keystoned and moulded round-headed doorcase with tympanum and polished Peterhead granite angle colonettes within sculpturally-embellished pedimented doorpiece, small window to left and right, larger window and panelled door to flanking bays, tripartite quasi-Venetian window with date panel to 1st floor centre flanked by

bipartites, tripartite flanked by bipartites to 2nd floor, gabled

dormer flanked by round-headed dormers; outer bays slightly advanced with bipartite to each floor, single dormer.

REAR ELEVATION: doors and various windows with original glazing pattern.

INTERIOR: not seen.

RAILINGS: decorative cast-iron railings to steps and area.