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Dundee, 50 North Lindsay Street, Dundee House

Factory (20th Century), Local Government Office (21st Century)

Site Name Dundee, 50 North Lindsay Street, Dundee House

Classification Factory (20th Century), Local Government Office (21st Century)

Alternative Name(s) 8-12 South Ward Road; 38 North Lindsay Street; Halley Bros

Canmore ID 185453

Site Number NO33SE 220

NGR NO 39986 30222

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/185453

Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved.
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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dundee, City Of
  • Parish Dundee (Dundee, City Of)
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District City Of Dundee
  • Former County Angus

Activities

Publication Account (2013)

DUNDEE HOUSE /HALLEY’S HACKLE WORKS

1911, by Harry Thomson, extended 1914. 4-storey with Diocletian windows. This works made pins for textile machinery, then stored ink and paper

for newspaper printing, and is now Dundee City Council HQ, by Reiach and Hall, completed 2011. There is a striking glass addition to the roof and

radial rear extensions.

M Watson, 2013

Photographic Survey (September 2017)

Dundee House by Reaich & Hall Architects (incorporating a former factory, latterly printworks) opened 2011 as replacement Dundee Council offices following the demolition of Tay House, cleared as part of the Dundee City Waterfront masterplan.

The new council offices have been photographed as a general record upgrade.

Information from HES Survey & Recording (IF), September 2017.

Desk Based Assessment

NO 3998 3021 (centred on) The site was extensively quarried during the first half of the 19th century, with only a strip of ground along South Ward Road possibly remaining untouched. The frontage on North Lindsay Street and South Ward Road is occupied by a B-listed building. This was constructed in 1909–15 as a factory for Halley Brothers and later occupied by DC Thomson’s print works.

Archive: RCAHMS

Funder: Reiach and Hall Architects

David Perry (SUAT Ltd), 2008

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