Location : Royal Hotel, part [12], Tay Street
= Property demolished or site redeveloped
Notes: demolished 1971-2
Part of a divided property. Other parts: Royal Hotel Royal Hotel, part [2] Royal Hotel, part [3] Royal Hotel, part [4] Royal Hotel, part [5] Royal Hotel, part [6] Royal Hotel, part [7] Royal Hotel, part [8] Royal Hotel, part [9] Royal Hotel, part [10] Royal Hotel, part [11] Royal Hotel, part [13] Royal Hotel, part [14]
Commentary
The Royal Hotel was built in 1877 with an entrance in the centre of the block on Tay Street and consisted of about 28 rooms. The Royal Hotel Bar entrance was on the corner of Tay Street & Robert Street. The hotel liquor licence was removed in 1882 after only a short existence and a public house licence was substituted. The hotel contents were sold off in 1882 and again in 1884 after which the hotel part of the property remained empty until 1890 when, with the exception of the Bar, it was converted into housing. Part of the property was used as the first Roman Catholic Mission Hall. Some of the rooms fronted on to Tay Street and some were over the first shops in Robert Street. The building appears to have been flexibly divided - rooms seem to have been allocated to different houses as needs changed. At times there were as many as 14 different tenancies, at others as few as 11. Because of this it is impossible to say who was living in which particular rooms at any given time. A 'best guess' is given on these pages. In 1936 the whole property was declared unfit for habitation. At this point it was found that some of the valuation roll entries were duplicates. The Town Council ordered alterations to give 2 x 3-apartment houses and 6 x 2-apartment houses, and these were in place by 30 September 1938. There is no way to link the pre-1938 division of rooms to the post-1938 arrangement, so these pages show the properties as two separate listings. The buildings were demolished in 1971-2.
Location and Old Maps
Latitude, longitude: 56.441961,-2.940382
View location on the 1855 6-inch map, the 1895 25-inch map, the 1914 25-inch map, the 1966 25-inch map, or a 1944-50 aerial photograph at the National Library of Scotland website.
Nearby properties (demolished in red): 1 Robert Street (formerly 2, Robert Street) 3 Robert Street (formerly 4, Robert Street) 5 Robert Street (formerly 6, Robert Street) 7 Robert Street (formerly 8, Robert Street) 9 Robert Street (formerly 10, Robert Street) 11 Robert Street (formerly 12, Robert Street) (formerly 14, Robert Street) (formerly 16, Robert Street) (formerly 18, Robert Street) (Grocer's Shop, Robert Street) 20 Tay Street 22 Tay Street 24 Tay Street 26 Tay Street 28 Tay Street 30 Tay Street (formerly 32, Tay Street) (formerly 34, Tay Street) (formerly 36, Tay Street) (formerly 38, Tay Street) (formerly 40, Tay Street) (formerly 42, Tay Street) (formerly 44, Tay Street) (formerly 46, Tay Street) (formerly 48, Tay Street) (formerly Royal Bar, 50, Tay Street) 52 Tay Street 54 Tay Street 56 Tay Street (house on site of 26, Tay Street) drinking fountain, Tay Street (house on site of Royal Hotel, Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [2], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [3], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [4], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [5], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [6], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [7], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [8], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [9], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [10], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [11], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [13], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [14], Tay Street) 19 Union Street 23 Union Street (house & workshop, Union Street) (former slater's yard, Union Street)
Later use of the site : (formerly 32) (formerly 34) (formerly 36) (formerly 38) (formerly 40) (formerly 42) (formerly 44) (formerly 46) (formerly 48)
Earlier use of the site : (house on site of Royal Hotel)
Information and Photographs on Other Sites (open in a new window)
1909-10 Finance Act - Valuation Office: Field Surveys
Reference no.  74
Old Addresses (any dates are approximate and are usually the latest occurence of the address)
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House Names (any dates are approximate and are usually the latest occurence of the name)
Royal Buildings | ||
Royal Hotel part, [12] | to 1938 |
Directory entries (before 1970) There are 18 entries
Source | Entry | ||
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1939-40 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1938-39 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1937-38 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1936-37 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1935-36 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1934-35 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1933-34 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1932-33 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1931-32 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1930-31 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1929-30 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1928-29 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1927-28 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1926-27 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1925-26 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1923-24 dir | Fisher, Melville, Royal buildings, Tayport road | ||
1908 Tayside Annual | M'Lauchlan, Mrs J., Tay Street. | ||
1907 Tayside Annual | M'Lauchlan, Mrs J., Tay Street. |
Census records
Year | Head | Notes | |||
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1911 | McLauchlan | Elizabeth |
Valuation Roll entries There are 12 entries
Year | No. | Property | Proprietor | Tenant | Occupier | Value | ||
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1937-38 | 616 | House | Trs of late William Bowden, 1 Rustic Place, Dundee per J & E Shepherd, 31 Panmure St, Dundee | Melville Fisher | 9-5-4 | View details | ||
1935-36 | 591 | House | Trs of late William Bowden, 1 Rustic Place, Dundee per J & E Shepherd, 31 Panmure St, Dundee | Melville Fisher | 9-5-4 | View details | ||
1932-33 | 564 | House | Trs of late William Bowden, 1 Rustic Place, Dundee per J & E Shepherd, 31 Panmure St, Dundee | Melville Fisher | 9-5-4 | View details | ||
1927-28 | 549 | House | Trs of late William Bowden, 1 Rustic Place, Dundee per J & E Shepherd, 31 Panmure St, Dundee | Melville Fisher | 9-5-4 | View details | ||
1922-23 | 506 | House | Trs of late William Bowden, 1 Rustic Place, Dundee per J & E Shepherd, 31 Panmure St, Dundee | Melville Fisher | same | 9-5-4 | View details | |
1917-18 | 485 | House | Trs of late William Bowden, 1 Rustic Place, Dundee per J & E Shepherd, 31 Panmure St, Dundee | Melville Fisher | same | 6-10-0 | View details | |
1915-16 | 480 | House | William Bowden, 1 Rustic Place, Dundee | empty | 6-10-0 | View details | ||
1912-13 | 303 | House | William Bowden, 1 Rustic Place, Dundee | Mrs J McLauchlan | same | 7 | View details | |
1907-08 | 284 | House | William Bowden per John Rattray, 50 Barrack St, Dundee | Mrs J McLauchlan | same | 7 | View details | |
1905-06 | 272 | House | William Bowden per John Rattray, 50 Barrack St, Dundee | Mrs J McLauchlan | same | 7 | View details | |
1903-04 | 269 | House | Heritable creditors in possession per John Rattray, 50 Barrack St, Dundee | Charles Hall, retired | same | 7 | View details | |
1901-02 | 858 | House | Heritable creditors in possession per John Rattray, 50 Barrack St, Dundee | Mrs Leitch | same | 3 | View details |
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