31 Bank Street, Dundee

This is an 1868 building, originally a three-story, attic, and basement commercial building with nine bays, featuring classical detailing and shopfronts. It is located on Bank Street in Dundee, with an angle entrance and two bays extending to Barrack Street on the left return. A further story and attic were later added to the six bays on the left side and Barrack Street elevation.

The building is constructed of stugged sandstone with cream sandstone ashlar on the ground floor and dressings, topped with a slate roof. The shopfronts feature paired pilasters, while the outer bays of numbers 27 and 29 have channelled angles at ground floor level. Architectural details include a moulded string and cill course at the first floor, a corbelled cornice at the second floor. Most windows are single-pane timber sash and case windows with architraves, cornices at the first floor, and pediments. Second-floor windows are segmental and stilted with Doric pilasters and bracketed cills, with plain lugged margins at the third floor.

The front elevation, comprising numbers 27, 29 and 31, is symmetrical to the right with a mirrored image for the six bays. The central ground floor section features paired two-leaf panelled doors with a keystoned round-headed fanlight, panelled pilasters, and a consoled parapet with blind panelling. The left and right sides of the ground floor have single windows flanked by windows with sidelights. The first floor displays two pedimented windows at the center, with corniced windows to the left and right, each flanked by single windows with sidelights and segmental pediments. The second floor has four single windows flanked by bipartites. The roof features a box dormer and two round-headed dormers on the right side (number 27) and a bipartite and two single windows to the later third floor on the left side (number 29). Number 31 has a bipartite plate-glass shop window centered on the ground floor, a keystoned round-headed window on the right, created from a former door, and two corniced windows to the first floor. A modern door and slightly recessed bowed bipartite windows are visible on the angled bay at the upper floors, with a segmental pediment above the first floor window.

The left return elevation to Barrack Street features a tripartite plate-glass shop window, two corniced windows on the first floor, and two windows on the second and third floors, topped with a dormer.

The rear elevation is asymmetrical. Number 27 has two basement windows and a bipartite and single window on the ground, first, and second floors, along with a later dormer. A further two small windows are visible on the first and second floors to the right, alongside a single ground floor window. Number 29 features various single and bipartite windows on all floors, and a gable with a stack to the right.

The interior of the building has not been inspected.