9 West Bell Street, Dundee

9 West Bell Street in Dundee is a former council office building designed by William Alexander in 1900. It is a three-storey structure with an attic and basement, featuring five bays. The building is constructed from sandstone ashlar, with a channelled ground floor and a grey slate roof. Notable architectural details include a cill band at the ground, first, and second floors, a corniced second floor for the three left-hand bays, and a consoled parapet adorned with blind trefoil-headed panels. The ground floor has architraved bipartite windows and round-headed cartouche panels with consoled lintels, while the first floor features consoled lintels with segmental pediments, including a shallower tripartite window with a triangular pediment in the centre bay. The two right-hand bays have cross windows that break into the parapet, which is topped with pedimented panels. The left side has three round-headed dormers, and the building is finished with ashlar-coped skews and finialled dies, along with a corniced end stack on the right.

The front elevation has a modern door at the slightly advanced centre bay, which is approached by steps that oversail the basement. This entrance features a keystoned and pilastered round-headed doorpiece that is voluted to a pediment from the springing point, with a tripartite window above it. There are two bipartite windows to the left and right at the ground and first floors, three bipartite windows on the second floor to the left, and two tall windows to the right, along with three dormers.

The rear elevation includes various doors on the ground floor and single and bipartite windows with original glazing. The interior has not been seen. Decorative cast-iron panel railings are present at the steps and area.