Beach tower
Beachtower is a villa in the Scottish city of Dundee in the council area of the same name . In 1963 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.
history
Red Court is one of the mansions of industrialists working in Dundee that emerged in the 19th century in the formerly independent communities that now form the eastern part of Dundee. The jute producer Andrew Adie had the villa built in 1875. He entrusted the Scottish architect John Murray Robertson with the planning . In the 1890s, William Hunter , the Provost and later Lord Provost (roughly Lord Mayor) of Dundee, lived in Beachtower. In 1887 he had a winter garden added, which has since been demolished. Today the villa is divided into six apartments.
description
Beachtower stands off Ralston Road in the eastern part of Dundee near the north bank of the Firth of Tay . With Red Court and Aystree there are two other listed industrial mansions in the area. The asymmetrically constructed two-story villa is designed in the historicizing Italianate style . The building is one of the early formwork concrete structures in Scotland. A stair tower with a balustrade at the end of the main facade, which is exposed to the west, rises up to the right , at the foot of which is the pilastrized entrance area. On the south side, two two-story lofts with coupled windows emerge. Various windows with architraves are executed along the façade on the ground floor . Short friezes divide the facades horizontally. The final roof is covered with gray slate.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
Web links
- Entry on Beach Tower in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
Coordinates: 56 ° 28 ′ 9.7 " N , 2 ° 54 ′ 23.1" W.