2, 6, 8 Reform Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 February 1965. Commercial block.
2, 6, 8 Reform Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- old-clay-sparrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1965
- Type
- Commercial block
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
George Angus, 1832, following the layout of William Burn, 1824; additions circa 1960 in similar but pared-down style to 5 left hand bays at High Street. 4-storey, classically-detailed corner block of shops, offices and flats, forming part of the (mostly) unified layout of Reform Street. Painted ashlar, concealed grey slate roof. Pilastered shopfronts, balustraded to Reform Street (shopfronts altered at Nos 10-14), cill band to 2nd and 3rd floor, principal dentilled cornice and corniced blocking course to 3rd floor; architraved windows to 1st floor, segmental and 2 triangular pediments to rounded angle bay with cornice to 2 flanking bays and corbelled architraves to 2nd floor,
originally 12-pane timber sash and case glazing, now mostly 2-pane.
REFORM STREET ELEVATION: 11 bays to right; fluted Ionic-columned distyle in antis doorpiece to centre bay, shopfronts to left and right, 11 windows to each upper floor. 2 bays to left; shopfront to ground floor, 2 windows to each upper floor. 3 bays to rounded angle at left: shopfront to ground floor, 3 windows to each upper floor.
HIGH STREET ELEVATION: shopfront with 2 windows to each upper floor of original 2 bays at right; 5 later bays to left with pilastered shopfronts and 5 windows to each upper floor.
INTERIOR: not seen.
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