Gatepiers & Railings, Wallacetown Nuresery School, Crescent Street, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1989. Nursery school.
Gatepiers & Railings, Wallacetown Nuresery School, Crescent Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- western-baluster-sorrel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1989
- Type
- Nursery school
- OS grid reference
- NO 408 309
- Coordinates
- 56.46717, -2.9608
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gatepiers and railings at Wallacetown Nursery School on Crescent Street in Dundee were created in 1858 by Dens Works Foundry. They feature two cast-iron Egyptian columns topped with Greek urn finials, which depict bas-relief figures representing learning. The design includes simple wrought-iron gates and railings set on a low coursed rubble wall.
Local climate
Gatepiers & Railings, Wallacetown Nuresery School, Crescent Street, Dundee receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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