Listed Buildings Area Survey
Date 15 February 2012
Event ID 884523
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Listed Buildings Area Survey
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/884523
Remarkable survivor in the centre of the city. At the core of what is now a complex of buildings is a C16th merchant's house. The C17th frontage onto the High Street was probably altered in the C18th, but the building had little further alteration until the major restoration of 2005-7 (after a long period of discussion) when the building was at risk of falling into a ruinous state. The rear games room was at one stage a billiard hall and a cafe belonging to Keillors (the jam and marmalade company) who owned the site at one stage in the late C19th.
Converted into a youth hostel by the Tayside Buildings Preservation Trust with Simpson and Brown Architects, original elements such as fireplaces and doorways have been sensitively restored and re-used.
The clock (1932), surmounted by a model of the 1731 Dundee Town House designed by William Adam, now hangs above the main entrance.
RCAHMS (CAJS) 2012.
