Debenham's, 1-3 Whitehall Street, Dundee

Debenham's is a commercial building located at 1-3 Whitehall Street in Dundee, dated 1887. It is a four-storey structure with an attic and features an octagonal fifth storey at the corner. The building is constructed from cream sandstone ashlar and topped with a grey slate Mansard roof. The ground floor has polished Peterhead granite pilasters, a modillioned cornice, and an open-work parapet above, although the parapet has been removed at Nethergate. There is a lintel band at the first floor and a cill band at the second floor, which is supported by a consoled and modillioned main cornice. The wallhead course is corniced and features a balustraded parapet, with a pilastered angle to the left.

The windows vary in style, including single, paired, and tripartite architraved designs. The first floor windows are pilastered and have triangular and segmental pediments, while the second floor features shouldered heads with colonette mullions and nook shafts. The third floor has mannered volutes, and the fourth floor at the angle has keystoned and pilastered round-headed margins. The roof includes round-headed and box dormers, as well as oculi on the dome, with 2-pane timber sash and case glazing and corniced ridge stacks.

On the Whitehall Street elevation, there is a door to the centre right with a later metal canopy, and shopfronts to the left and right that have cast-iron columns and leaded lights above the plate glass windows. The centre of the upper floors features a tripartite window flanked by single, bipartite, and canted windows, with the canted window on the right being part of a five-light angle bay. A decorative cast-iron balcony is present at the second floor above the tripartite window. There is a modern box dormer and slate-hung lift housing to the left, along with two round-headed and one box dormer to the right. The fourth floor angle bay has five windows with a facetted domed roof, eight oculi, and a flagpole.

The Nethergate elevation has an altered shopfront on the ground floor, with a bipartite window flanked by single windows and a canted window to the left, which is part of the five-light angle bay at the first to third floors. There are two round-headed dormers on this elevation. The interior has not been seen.