Dc Thomson's Warehouses, Guthrie Street, Dundee

Circa 1828-35 flax warehouses in U-plan around a court,

with L-plan warehouse added to W in the 1860s. Rubble-

built.

Blinshall Street: 2-storey, 6-bay warehouse with 2 blocked

windows and 2 doors, 1 enlarged, at ground floor.

Symmetrical 1st floor with 2 taller blind windows in centre

and 2 windows to each side, 1 blind and 1 blocked. Blank

N and S gables. Lower L-shaped warehouse to W, with fire

barrier wall, encloses court. Piended slate roof. Wooden

gate to courtyard.

Long 2-storey warehouse at Guthrie Street with 3-bay E

gable and enlarged door. 2 windows have modern block

glazing. Roof was piended slate, altered to gabled and

now corrugated. Guthrie Street elevation has 5 blocked

ground floor doors and 10 small margined windows with

modern block glazing. S elevation similar with small 1st

floor windows and a wooden hoist to court. Tall 3-storey

warehouse at right angles to the 1- and 2-storey warehouses

with later large door at ground floor of Guthrie Street

elevation. 3-bay 1st and 2nd floors with hoist doors in

left hand bays under wrought iron hoist and original

unglazed wooden shuttered windows. Hipped slate roof with

central fire barrier wall. Elevation to court has small

blind windows at 1st and 2nd floors and larger blocked

doors under 1 wooden and 2 wrought-iron hoists. W elevation

has small blind windows to a narrow alley. 2-storey L-plan

warehouse, 1860s, separated from older warehouse by narrow

passage with steps, linked by iron gantry at 1st floor.

Front elevation 5 bays with central entrance, below louvred

hoist door. W elevation 3-bay with shuttered windows, iron

at ground and wooden at 1st floor. Rear section of L lit

at 1st floor by 3 small multi-paned windows. Blank N

elevation, 2 piended roofs.

Interior: Blinshall Street Warehouse high ground floor

with wooden multilple tie-team roof, lower section at rear

Queen post and collar beams. Guthrie Street 2-storey

warehouse with steel frame and concrete arched floors

inserted circa 1900. Queen Post roof. 3-storey warehouse

has 1st floor removed in N section, but S part retains

original timber post and beam construction on all 3 floors.

W, L-plan, warehouse with flanged cast-iron columns

carrying wooden floors and beams with wells. Open tie-beam

roof. Internal stone dividing wall with arched entrance.

Some original iron-plated wooden doors.