St David's Hall, Nethergate, Dundee

St David's Hall, located on Nethergate in Dundee, is an early 17th century building that underwent significant rebuilding of its upper floors in the 18th century and was extended to the south in the early 19th century. It is a three-storey, L-plan structure with a triple-pile layout, constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings.

The elevation facing the yard features an L-plan with a sunken court. The three-storey block includes a ground floor loggia supported by an early 17th century pilastered pier with roll-moulded angles, which carries a stilted arch that has been partly infilled. There is a small window to the left and a later forestair. The upper floors are now pebble-dashed and have two modern window surrounds, along with an ashlar margined door. The west elevation to the yard is largely modern and harled, with fragments of the earlier building visible at the junction with the tenement.

The east elevation consists of a long, two-storey rubble-built range of various constructions, with several windows blocked in the 18th and 19th centuries, while others have been recently filled with brick. The northernmost section was formerly one and a half storeys high, but now has a flat roof with two dormers cutting through the eaves and single blocked lights below, with a door to the right. There are two gables on the left, with the southern gable being later and overlapping the northern one. Gable end stacks and skews are present.

The south elevation, dating from the early 19th century, is three-storey and three-bay, asymmetrical, and was formerly accessed by a forestair to the first floor. A later lean-to has been removed. There is a single bay of 18th century construction set back on the left, featuring a ground floor chamfered pend entrance.

The roofs are gabled with swept valleys, and the bases of stone stacks are visible. The section of the building facing the yard has low piended corrugated asbestos cladding, while part of the linking range has a modern flat roof.

Inside, the ground floor pend includes a deep press, with a chamfered door to the left that has corbels, possibly for a jettied gallery. There is a fine roll-moulded door to the left leading to a passage that connects to a former beer cellar. A central 18th century stair with a stone newel is present, along with an early 19th century bakery to the south that contains ovens and a stone mortar. The northern linking range has three chambers, two of which have stone vaults, while one is timber-framed with a boiler. The upper floors of St David's Hall feature 18th century woodwork, an arched dining room recess, and coved plaster ceilings, along with a 19th century cornice and rose in the lodge temple.