Post Office, 218 Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1991. Post office. 2 related planning applications.

Post Office, 218 Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

WRENN ID
tenth-storey-hyssop
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 October 1991
Type
Post office
Address
Post Office, 218 Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, DD5 2HG
OS grid reference
NO 461 310
Coordinates
56.46818, -2.87589
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Post Office at 218 Queen Street in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was designed by W T Oldrieve of the Office of Works and completed in 1907. This building is a single and two-storey, L-shaped structure with six bays, featuring classical detailing. It is constructed with ashlar and dry dash, topped with a slate roof.

On the northeast elevation, the façade is primarily ashlar with a keystoned doorpiece on the far left, flanked by pilasters and a segmental hood. The letters E and R are displayed in panels above the door. To the right, there are paired windows, followed by three additional windows further along. The first floor has six windows aligned with those below.

The east elevation is mostly covered in dry dash, featuring two windows on both the ground and first floors in a flat-roofed bay on the left. There are two tripartite windows in a single-storey section at the far left, while the main block of the south range extends to the left with three windows at the left return gables.

The west elevation also features dry dash, with a door at the ground floor and a window above on the first floor. The south range is recessed on the right side, including a loading bay, door, windows, and overhanging eaves.

On the south elevation, there is one window on the ground floor to the left and two on the first floor, with the windows being nine-pane and twelve-pane sash and case, respectively.

Local climate

Post Office, 218 Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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