3, 5, 7 West Bell Street, Dundee

3, 5, 7 West Bell Street in Dundee is a hostel building designed by Ireland and MacLaren, dated 1881. It is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and features five bays. The exterior is made of sandstone ashlar, with a channelled ground floor and snecked rubble at the rear, topped by a grey slate roof. There is a cill band at the first and second floors, and a consoled parapet adorned with blind trefoil-headed panels. The building has a mix of single, bi-partite, and tripartite windows, with architraves on the ground, first, and second floors, and diaper-pattern round-headed panels above the ground floor. The windows have 2-pane timber sash and case glazing, and there are one gabled and four round-headed dormers that rise through the parapet, featuring astragalled windows and a central hopper. Large corniced ridge stacks with uniform cream cans complete the roofline.

On the front elevation, there is a two-leaf panelled door at the centre, accessed by steps that oversail the basement. This door is framed by a keystoned and moulded round-headed doorcase with a tympanum and polished Peterhead granite angle colonettes, all set within a sculpturally embellished pedimented doorpiece. Smaller windows are located to the left and right of the door, with a larger window and a panelled door in the flanking bays. The first floor features a tripartite quasi-Venetian window with a date panel at the centre, flanked by bipartite windows. The second floor has a tripartite window flanked by bipartites as well. The outer bays are slightly advanced and each has a bipartite window on every floor, with a single dormer above.

The rear elevation includes doors and various windows that retain their original glazing pattern. The interior has not been seen. Decorative cast-iron railings are present at the steps and area.