Dens Road School, 75-77 Dens Road, Dundee

Dens Road School, located at 75-77 Dens Road in Dundee, was designed by James H Langlands with assistance from William Gillespie Lamond and built between 1908 and 1909. This prominently positioned, two-storey symmetrical school features hammer-dressed rubble with ashlar dressings.

The south elevation consists of three two-storey classroom blocks, with stair and cloakroom towers that rise five storeys, including a mezzanine above the ground and first floors. The central block has three groups of windows arranged in a pattern of one, two, and one, with Jugendstil lettering at the first-floor level. The end blocks have a similar window arrangement, with the end bays gabled and featuring arched details at the heads.

The towers include stepped five-light horizontal windows, with semi-circular canopied and consoled doors at the outer bays, a five-light lunette in the second mezzanine, and a top storey with a ten-light window. The design is completed with a curvilinear parapet and stepped stacks.

The east and west elevations have a tripartite centre, with an arched door at the first floor and steps leading up, which were inserted over an air intake.

On the north elevation, the windows are arranged in a one, two, and one light pattern. The central block is advanced, with porches in the re-entrant angles and a ten-light mezzanine window above.

The building features top-hopper windows with horizontal astragals and piended slate M-roofs, along with rubble-built stacks and four large louvred dome-capped ventilators.

Inside, the school has a corridor plan with central halls on both the ground and first floors, featuring arcades and borrowed lights from the classrooms. The interior was re-fitted in 1972-1973, which involved the addition of new fire doors and mezzanine partitions, resulting in the loss of much original detailing.

In front of the central block, there is a plenum heating system air intake, which is a circular rubble-built structure with an open timber peristyle and a concave roof.

Additionally, there is a single-storey and attic janitor's house at the southeast corner of the property. This house is harled on a rubble-built base, with a rounded angle at the southeast that rises into an angle dormer. The entrance is on the south side, flanked by small windows. The original glazing pattern features a two-pane lower sash with multi-pane upper sections. The house has a piended catslide swept roof, broad eaves, and a stack.

Finally, the wrought-iron railings surrounding the property resemble the stamen of plants.