27, 29 Commercial Street, Dundee

Style of John Bruce, late 19th century. 5-storey and attic, 7-bay,

Renaissance-detailed tenemental and commercial building. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Shopfronts to ground floor with original piers and cornice, two 2-leaf doors with keystoned and pilastered round-headed doorcase and fanlight, corniced parapet, paired brackets to left hand door; channelled 1st floor, cill course to 2nd floor; frieze, dentilled and corbelled main cornice to 3rd floor, wallhead course and cornice. Shouldered windows to 1st floor with moulded cavetto reveals, 5 centre

windows to 2nd floor architraved with alternate triangular and

segmental pediments, corbelled cills and cill panels; architraved windows to 3rd and 4th floors, keystoned and round-headed to 4th floor; single aediculed dormer (pediment removed), 2 round-headed leaded dormers to left and right, bipartite pedimented dormer to far left and right; 2-pane timber sash and case frames. Corniced axial stacks.

FRONT ELEVATION: door to ground floor centre, and to right, flanked by shopfronts; 11 windows to 1st floor, 5 windows to 2nd and 3rd floors flanked by 2-storey canted oriels, 9 windows to 4th floor, 7 dormers.

INTERIOR: not seen.