3 Rockfield Street, Dundee

Charles and Leslie Ower, circa 1885. High Victorian gothic

3-house asymmetrical terrace. 2-storey and attic squared

rubble with ashlar dressings.

W elevation from left (No 7): gabled bay with ground floor

4-light canted bay with cast-iron brattishing, 1st floor

3-light tudor arched stilted hood-moulded window, 2-light

segmental arched window over, steep gable, bargeboarding

intact, finial missing. 3-stage tower to right with ground

floor pilastered doorway with architraved 12-pane fanlight

and segmental pediment over. Simple chamfered window arrises

at 1st, mullioned and transomed windows above roof-line,

3-light to W, 2-light to S. Square corbelled tower with

octagonal facetted spire, roof partly fishcale, and

wrought-iron finial.

3 recessed centre bays symmetrical. Central canted bay at

ground and 1st floors, corbelled cast-iron brattishing

at 1st, doorways to each side with 12-pane fanlights and

scrolled escutcheons. Plain chamfered arrises to single

lights at 1st floor. Chevron moulded cornice. 2 single

light piended roofed dormers, 1 2-light elaborately

bargeboarded gabled dormer with cast-iron brattished balcony

Finial missing. Right section boldly projecting canted bay.

5-light mullioned and transomed ground floor window, 4

stilted Tudor-arched lights at 1st with corbelled cast-iron

brattished balconies, hood-moulds. 2nd floor corbelled out at

eaves level, stepped 3-light window in steep gable with

intact bargeboarding, coated single-light window with half

piended roofs, finials.

N and S elevations: single and 2-light chamfered windows,

light on NW Victoria Road elevation, 4 tripartites and one

1 blocked, stack corbelled out at 1st rising through

bargeboarded gable. Bracketted eaves to W with single and

2-light piend-roofed dormers. Gable-end stacks at E.

Rear: 2 bargeboarded gables and 3 wall-head stacks. 3

single-storey and attic service wings with dormers and

flat topped roofs.

Steep slate roofs with fish-scale bands. 2-pane sash and

case windows, except where transomed, some modern.

INTERIOR: some houses now flatted, but plasterwork and

parts of the stairs remain.

Low garden wall with rectangular gatepiers.