 It was of red sandstone and built in the Scottish Baronial style.Scottish architectural historian Charles McKean, and his co-authors of a book on Dundee' lost architectural heritage, described the building as "overly bombastic in nature" and suggest it was built as "a gesture of defiance" by the Caledonian Railway in response to the arrival of an alternate route in Dundee run by its bitter rival the North British Railway via the Tay Rail Bridge.It was demolished upon closure.