Location : house on site of Royal Hotel, Tay Street
Photo / old map: Map, Ordnance Survey 1854.
= Property demolished or site redeveloped
Notes: demolished
Introduction
Tay Cottage - a house of 8 rooms. Demolished to make way for the Royal Hotel.
Commentary
On this whole plot there have been 3 generations of buildings.
1. Built from the 1830s on, a house, Tay Cottage, on Tay Street; further up Robert Street Turnbull's 2 workshop buildings with a house above one of them. Tay Cottage was demolished in 1876, the workshop in late 1877.
2. Built in 1877, the Royal Hotel on Tay Street, and a row of shops with houses above running up Robert Street and round into Union Street (the last bit built 1878). The whole block was known as Royal Buildings. They were all demolished in 1971-2.
3. Built in 1973-4, the existing Royal Buildings.
Location and Old Maps
Latitude, longitude: 56.442000,-2.940312
View location on the 1855 6-inch map, the 1895 25-inch map, the 1914 25-inch map, the 1966-73 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) (formerly 20, Robert Street) (house & workshop, Robert Street) (Grocer's Shop, Robert Street) 1 Royal Buildings 2 Royal Buildings 3 Royal Buildings 4 Royal Buildings 5 Royal Buildings 6 Royal Buildings 7 Royal Buildings 8 Royal Buildings 9 Royal Buildings 10 Royal Buildings 11 Royal Buildings 12 Royal Buildings 13 Royal Buildings 14 Royal Buildings 15 Royal Buildings 16 Royal Buildings 17 Royal Buildings 18 Royal Buildings 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 (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 [12], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [13], Tay Street) (Royal Hotel, part [14], Tay Street) (old byre [5a], Tay Street) (old cottage [6], Tay Street) (old cottage [7], Tay Street) (old cottage [8], Tay Street) (old cottage [9], Tay Street) 19 Union Street 23 Union Street (hut addition for telephone exchange, Union Street) (former slater's yard, Union Street)
Later use of the site : (formerly 48 Tay Street) (formerly 50 Tay Street) (Royal Hotel) (Royal Hotel, part [10]) (Royal Hotel, part [11]) (Royal Hotel, part [12]) (Royal Hotel, part [13]) (Royal Hotel, part [14]) (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])
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)
Tay Cottage | 1875 |
Directory entries (before 1975) There are 12 entries
Source | Entry | ||
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1876-77 dir | Turnbull, John, engineer and millwright, Robert street ; h. Tay cottage, East Newport [* ms. alteration - 'Tay cottage' deleted] | location 2 | |
1874-75 dir | Beckwith, Mrs, Tay Cottage, Newport | ||
1873 Slater dir | Beckwith Mrs. -, Tay Cottage, Newport | ||
1871-72 dir | Beckwith, Mrs, Tay Cottage, East Newport | ||
1869-70 dir | Beckwith, Mrs, Tay Cottage | ||
1866 Fife dir | Donaldson, John, clerk (Dundee), E Newport | ||
1862 Fife dir | Robertson, John F, banker (Dundee), E Newport | ||
1858-59 Dundee dir | Robertson, Jeffier H [sic], bank teller, Bank of Scotland, Dundee; h. Newport | ||
1858-59 Dundee dir | Boyd, Robert, writer and notary public, 51 Reform Street, Dundee; h. Tay Cottage, Newport | ||
1856-57 Dundee dir | Boyd, Robert, writer and notary-public, 51 Reform Street, Dundee; h. Tay Cottage, Newport | ||
1853-54 dir | Boyd, Robert, writer (Dun.), Tay Cottage, Tay Street. | ||
1853-54 dir | Turnbull, William, millwright. Union Street ; h, Tay Cottage. | location 2 |
Census records
Year | Address | Head | Notes | Rooms | ||||
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1871 | Tay Street | Beckwith | Catherine H | 8 | View household | |||
1861 | 9 Tay Street | Tay Cottage | Robertson | Jeffrey H | 8 | View household | ||
1851 | Tay Cottage | Boyd | Robert | View household |
Valuation Roll entries There are 7 entries
Year | No. | Property | Proprietor | Tenant | Occupier | Value | |||
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1875-76 | 322 | House and Garden | John Turnbull, millwright | Said J. Turnbull | 24 | View details | |||
1871-72 | 289 | House and Garden | John & Trs of late Alexander Turnbull | Mrs Beckwith | 25 | View details | |||
1867-68 | 268 | House and Garden | J. Turnbull & Trustees of late A. Turnbull | John Donaldson, clerk | 25-0-2 | View details | |||
1865-66 | 252 | House and Garden | Alexander and John Turnbull, millwrights | said John Donaldson | John Donaldson, merchant | 25 | View details | ||
1864-65 | 235 | House and Garden | Alexander and John Turnbull, millwrights | John Donaldson, clerk | 25 | View details | |||
1860-61 | 202 | House and Garden | William Turnbull, millwright | John Robertson, banker | 27 | View details | |||
1855-56 | 108 | House and Garden | William Turnbull, millwright | Robert Boyd, writer | said Robert Boyd | 26 | View details |
Early Sasines:
Sasine Plots:
Plot: 147 view details | Maryton | lot 5 | 52 falls 10 ells | (Low, Croom, Geddes, Turnbull) | Royal Buildings and predecessors | On this whole plot there have been 3 generations of buildings. 1. Built from the 1830s on, a house, Tay Cottage, on Tay Street; further up Robert Street Turnbull's 2 workshop buildings with a house above one of them. Tay Cottage was demolished in 1876, the workshop in late 1877. 2. Built in 1877, the Royal Hotel on Tay Street, and a row of shops with houses above running up Robert Street and round into Union Street (the last bit built 1878). The whole block was known as Royal Buildings. They were all demolished in 1971-2. 3. Built in 1973-4, the existing Royal Buildings. |
Sasine Abridgements:
Ref | In Brief | Abridgement | Recorded | Plots | |
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1880.06076 | part of 1877 Webster family loan repaid; remainder transferred to Trs Mar Con Frederick Hayne Carter & Jane Letitia Morson | Assig & disch containing (1) Assig by Tr James Webster (for bonds to Elizabeth Webster ... Weston super Mare, Robert Webster, Alves, Moray deceased, David Webster coffee planter ... Ceylon, Graham Webster ... Victoria Australia) to Mar Con Frederick Hanye Carter, accountant Edinburgh & Jane Letitia Morson of £1800 of bond (16 Nov 1877) for £2000 by John Turnbull etc over 52 falls 10 ells lot 5 of Marytown; (2) disch of £200 of said bond | 5 Aug 1880 | 147 | |
1880.06075 | part of Blairs College loan transferred to Trs Mar Con Frederick Hayne Carter & Jane Letitia Morson | Assig by Trs Blairs College, Aberdeen to Mar Con Frederick Hanye Carter, accountant Edinburgh & Jane Letitia Morson of £2000 of bond (15 Dec 1876) £4000 by John Turnbull etc over 52 falls 10 ells lot 5 of Marytown ... | 5 Aug 1880 | 147 | |
1880.06013 | John Turnbull to Trs | Trust disp by John Turnbull to Trs of lot 5 of Marytown, 52 falls 10 ells & hotel, shops, dwellings & bakery etc t/on ... : N & E by 30' roads, : S by 25' road | 20 Jul 1880 | 147 | |
1880.06012 | loan by Margaret Lind Heron | Bond £350 by John Turnbull, formerly millwright now coal merchant, Newport & disp by him ... & Turnbull family ... to Margaret Lind Heron, Home House, Broughty Ferry over lot 5 of Marytown, 52 falls 10 ells & hotel, shops, dwellings & bakery etc t/on ... : N & E by 30' roads, : S by 25' road | 20 Jul 1880 | 147 | |
1878.03463 | loan by Trs James Webster, this loan to take precedence over family's loans | Bond £300 by John Turnbull millwright & disp by him, consent of Jessie Turnbull, Elizabeth Turnbull, Margaret Turnbull, J & A Turnbull, Alexander Turnbull ... this bond to take precedence over family's loans, to Trs James Webster of Clapham Common, Surrey, for establishing an Academy in Dundee etc, over lot 5 of Marytown, 52 falls 10 ells & hotel, shops, dwellings & bakery etc t/on | 23 Sep 1878 | 147 | |
1877.02431 | loan by James, Elizabeth, Robert, David, Graham Webster, this loan to take precedence over family's loans | Bond £2000 by John Turnbull millwright to Trs ... for ... James Webster, Elizabeth Webster, Robert Webster, David Webster, Graham Webster ... & disp by John Turnbull, Jessie Turnbull, Elizabeth Turnbull, Margaret Turnbull, J & A Turnbull, Alexander Turnbull, Jane Howie / Muir ... this bond to take precedence over family's loans, over lot 5 of Marytown, 52 falls 10 ells & hotel, shops, dwellings & bakery etc t/on ... : N & E by 30' roads, : S by 25' road | 16 Nov 1877 | 147 | |
1876.01220 | McKenzie loan repaid | Disch by Lewis McKenzie Newport disburd bond (17 May 1875) £1500 by John Turnbull millwright over 52 falls 10 ells lot 5 of Maryton ... | 15 Dec 1876 | 147 | |
1876.01219 | loan by Trs Blair College, this loan to take precedence over other loans | Bond £4000 & disp by John Turnbull millwright Newport, consent Jessie, Elizabeth & Margaret Turnbull & Jane Howie Muir / Turnbull, J & A Turnbull, Alexander Turnbull - their rights in bond 13 Jul 1864 - ... to Trs for Blairs College, Aberdeen of 52 falls 10 ells lot 5 of Maryton ... said bond shall rank preferably to other bonds | 15 Dec 1876 | 147 | |
1875.04410 | loan by Lewis McKenzie, to take precedence over other loan | Bond £1500 by John Turnbull & disp security by him, consent of Jessie, Elizabeth & Margaret Turnbull ... to Lewis McKenzie Newport over 52 falls 10 ells lot 5 of Marytown & dw houses etc t/on, : E by 30' road, : S by 25' road, : N by 30' road, pt of Seacraig, this bond to rank primo loco on said subjects | 17 May 1875 | 147 | |
1875.04168 | Trs Alexander Turnbull to John Turnbull (1/2) | Disp by Trs Alexander Turnbull, engineer Newport to John Turnbull, millwright Newport of 1/2 pro indiviso of 52 falls 10 ells grnd lot 5 of Marytown & workshops, dwelling houses etc t/on, : E & N by 35' roads, pt of Seacraig | 2 Mar 1875 | 147 | |
1868.02582 | Alexander Turnbull's half to Trs | Trs Alexander Turnbull get not instr of 1/2 of 52 falls 10 ells & houses etc t/on, lot 5 Marytown, as recorded … (1864.02692), & gen disp & settl by him 1866 | 4 Jan 1868 | 147 | |
1864.02694 | loan by Jessie, Elizabeth & Margaret Turnbull to J & A Turnbull, James Turnbull & Alexander Turnbull | Jessie, Elizabeth & Margaret Turnbull residing Newport get bond & disp for £80-11-9, £307-18-7 and £324-16-11 respectively by J & A Turnbull millwrights Newport as a company, and John & Alexander Turnbull, the only partners thereof as such and as individuals, consent of Jane Howie Muir spouse of Alexander Turnbull, over (1) E-most and W-most halves of 50 pol 15 yd & houses etc t/on lot 29 of Craighead, & over (2) 52 falls 10 ells grnd & houses etc t/on lot 5 of Maryton | 13 Jul 1864 | 133, 282, 147 | |
1864.02692 | Trs William Turnbull to John Turnbull & Alexander Turnbull (Dec 1862) | John Turnbull millwright Newport and Alexander Turnbull millwright Newport reg disp to themselves by Trs William Turnbull millwright Newport Dec 1862 of 52 falls 10 ells No. 5 on plan of Maryton & houses etc t/on | 13 Jul 1864 | 147 | |
1862.01472 | William Turnbull to Trs | Trs William Turnbull millwright Newport seised in 52 falls 10 ells of lands of Seacraig etc no. 5 on plan of village of Marytown & houses etc t/on on disp & settl by said William Turnbull 10 Jan 1857 | 28 Nov 1862 | 147 | |
1862.01451 | apportionment of feu dutues by Church of Scotland | Trs General Assembly of Church of Scotland grant deed of appointment of trust declaring the following plots - plots 1st - 24th described in disp (11 Nov 1862) - held by them for payment out of the rents, feu duties, etc thereof of the annual sum of £80 to minister of parish of Ardallie, and surplus rents etc to Treasurer, Church of Scotland, for endowments of chapels of ease (see 01395) | 24 Nov 1862 | 95, 102, 147, 148, 112, 113, 157, 117, 146, 100, 153, 194, 150, 165, 152, 202, 149, 75, 67 | |
1862.01395 | Tayfield to Church of Scotland (feu duties, rents) [1-21 Marytown, 22-23 south of Marytown, 24 Craighead, 25-43 St Phillans] | Trs General Assembly of Church of Scotland regist disp to themselves by John Berry, Tayfield of the following lands & others, pts of lands of Inverdovat, Craighead & Causewayhead, viz (1) 3 cottages in village of Marytown (now Easter Newport); pce grnd with the 2 cottages t/on on E side of E-most of said 3 cottages; self-contained cottage with attics & garden grnd; 19 falls 5 yd (22 pol 29 yd) grnd with the 2 cottages t/on on S side of road Newport - Ferryport, being all pts of subjects described in the title deeds as 2 roods 4 falls 24 ells grnd pt of lands of Seacraig etc and therein descr as marked no. 1 & no. 2 on a plan; [lot 3 not mentioned - ? public house]; (2) 42 falls 17 ells (1 rood 13 pol 12 yd) grnd no. 4 on said plan & erections t/on; (3) 52 falls 10 ells grnd no.5 on said plan & ho etc t/on; (4) 52 falls 10 ells (1 rood 25 pol 28 yd) grnd no. 6on said plan & ho etc t/on; (5) 41 falls 31 ells grnd no. 7 on said plan; (6) 2 pces grnd extending to 1 rood 30 falls 34 ells nos. 8 & 9 on said plan & houses t/on; (7) E-most half with the houses etc t/on, and W-most half of 2 pces grnd 80 falls 29 ells no. 10 & 11 on said plan; (8) 29 falls 22 ells grnd lot no. 12 on plan; (9) 35 falls and (10) 35 falls grnd nos. 13 & 14 on plan; (11) 40 falls 4 ells grnd no. 15 on plan & bldgs t/on; (12) 40 falls 4 ells grnd no. 16 on certified copy of said plan; [lot 17 missing - ? owned by Gibb, vintner]; (13) 40 falls 4 ells grnd no. 18 on plan; (14) 35 falls (41 pol 4 yd) grnd no. 19 on certified copy of plan & ho etc t/on; (15) 49 falls 14 ells grnd no. 20 on plan & houses etc t/on; (16) 40 falls 4 ells grnd lot 21 on cert. copy of plan; (17-20) 4 pces grnd 40 falls 4 ells each nos. 22, 23, 24, 25; (21) 49 falls 14 ells grnd no. 26 all on said plan & houses t/on; (22) 1 rood 34 falls 18 ells grnd no. 39 on a plan; (23) 3 roods 38 falls 15 ells (4 rood 39 pol & 14 sq yd) grnd to the S thereof with quarry therein, being all pts of lands of Seacraig; (24) 10 acres 32 falls of lands of Craighead & houses t/on; (25) lot of 41.66 pol and (26) lot of 42 pol grnd marked no. 1 & 2 of street called Hillside Crescent on a ground plan; (27) lot of 44 pol (28) lot of 34 pol and (29) lot of 35 pol 16 yd grnd nos. 3, 4 & 5 on said ground plan; (30) lot of 44 pol grnd no. 6 on said ground plan on which a ho or cottage has now been erected; (31)lot of 44 pol grnd forming lot 7 & pt of lot 8 on said plan; (32) lot of 39 pol 16 yd pt of lot 8 & pt of lot 9 on plan; (33) 39 pol 16 yd composed of stance marked no. 10 & pt of stance marked no. 9 on said plan; (34-41) lots of 29 pol 28 yd, 33 pol 4 yd, 28 pol 26 yd, 22 pol 14 yd, 22 pol 14 yd, 22 pol 12 yd, 25 pol 23 yd, 30 pol 21 yd of grnd lots 11, 12, 13,14,15,16,17,19 on said plan; (42) lot of 30 pol 7 yd grnd no. 20 on plan & ho etc t/on; (43) 58 pol 15 yd forming 2 lots marked no. 21 & 22 on said plan, being all pts of park or pce grnd bewteen village of Easter Newport & t/p Newport - Cupar, & teinds ... reserving the feu rights … [43 plots listed, but 1863.02082 refers to 45 plots - which is correct? Were lots 3 and 17 added later?] | 11 Nov 1862 | 95, 102, 147, 148, 112, 113, 157, 117, 146, 100, 153, 194, 150, 165, 152, 202, 149, 75, 67, 243, 292, 291, 287, 288, 311, 289, 312, 308, 247, 256, 278, 285, 286, 284, 72, 204, 207, 290 | |
1858.01614 | Geddes loan repaid | Margaret Geddes grants disch of bond & disp (6 Apr 1849) £250 by William Turnbull & declares 52 falls 10 ells of Maryto & ho etc t/on disburdened (see 01954) | 17 May 1858 | 147 | |
1849.01954 | loan by Margaret Geddes | Margaret Geddes gets bond & disp £250 by William Turnbull over 52 falls 10 ells & ho etc t/on in Maryton | 7 Apr 1849 | 147 | |
1849.01951 | Margaret Geddes to William Turnbull | William Turnbull, wright Maryton, seised 52 falls 10 ells & ho etc t/on in Maryton on disp by Margaret Geddes | 6 Apr 1849 | 147 | |
1838.03826 | John Croom to Margaret Geddes | Margaret Geddes seised 52 falls 10 ells & ho t/on in Maryton on disp by John Croom, 19 May 1838. | 27 Jul 1838 | 147 | |
1833.01053 | David Low to William Turnbull to John Croom | John Croom seised 52 falls 10 ells pt of lands of Seacraig & ho t/on in village of Maryton on disp by David Low, slater, Dundee to William Turnbull, formerly residing at Seamills now at Maryton & disp & assig by him | 18 Feb 1833 | 147 | |
1826.03118 | Scotscraig to David Low | David Low, slater, Dundee seised 52 falls 10 ells in Maryton on feu ch by Robert Dalgleish, Scotscraig | 6 Jun 1826 | 147, 250 | sasine extract |
Abbreviations in the notes
t/on - thereon; t/p - turnpike; dw - dwelling; ho - house; pt - part; pce - piece; grnd - ground; bldg - building; Tr/Trs - Trustee/Trustees; dec - deceased; ... - words omitted; pol - poles; yd - square yards; : - bounded; rd - road; ' - feet; " - inches;
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