5 Rockfield Street, Dundee

This is a High Victorian Gothic, three-house asymmetrical terrace built around 1885 by Charles and Leslie Ower. The building is two storeys and an attic, constructed from squared rubble with ashlar dressings.

The west elevation, viewed from the left (number 7), begins with a gabled bay featuring a ground-floor four-light canted bay with cast-iron brattishing. Above this is a first-floor three-light window with a stilted hood-mould, followed by a two-light segmental arched window, all beneath a steep gable with intact bargeboarding, though the finial is missing. To the right stands a three-stage tower with a ground-floor pilastered doorway and an architraved twelve-pane fanlight beneath a segmental pediment. Simple chamfered window arrises are present at the first floor, above which are mullioned and transomed windows; a three-light window faces west, and a two-light window faces south. The square tower corbels to form an octagonal, facetted spire, with a partly fishscale roof and a wrought-iron finial.

The central three bays are recessed and symmetrical, with a canted bay on both the ground and first floors. Corbelled cast-iron brattishing adorns the first floor. Doorways flank the canted bay, each featuring a twelve-pane fanlight and scrolled escutcheons. Plain chamfered arrises define the single lights at the first floor. A chevron moulded cornice runs along the top. Two single-light, piended-roof dormers are present, along with one elaborately bargeboarded gabled dormer that incorporates a cast-iron brattished balcony, the finial of which is missing.

The right-hand section is boldly projecting, with a five-light mullioned and transomed ground floor window. The first floor has four stilted Tudor-arched lights, accompanied by corbelled cast-iron brattished balconies and hood-moulds. The second floor is corbelled out at eaves level, showcasing a stepped three-light window within a steep gable, with intact bargeboarding. A coated single-light window has half-piended roofs, and finials are also present.

The north and south elevations feature single and two-light chamfered windows, along with a single light on the northwest Victoria Road elevation. Four tripartite windows are present, one of which is blocked, with a stack corbelled out at the first floor, rising through a bargeboarded gable. Bracketed eaves extend westwards, with single and two-light, piend-roofed dormers. Gable-end stacks are located at the east.

The rear elevation displays two bargeboarded gables and three wall-head stacks, along with three single-storey and attic service wings incorporating dormers and flat-topped roofs.

The steep slate roofs include fish-scale bands. The windows are generally two-pane sash and case, though some are transomed, and a few have been replaced with modern versions.

Internally, some of the houses have been converted into flats, but original plasterwork and sections of the staircases remain.

A low garden wall is present, complete with rectangular gatepiers.