53-55 West Port, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 August 1979. 4 related planning applications.

53-55 West Port, Dundee

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 August 1979
Address
53-55 West Port, Dundee, DD1 5ER
OS grid reference
NO 397 301
Coordinates
56.45963, -2.97974
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a three-storey and attic building dated 1823, located at 53-55 West Port, Dundee, and altered in 1864 to accommodate a public house. The building occupies an island site and has a trapezoidal plan. It is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. The front, facing West Port, has six bays and a ground floor with pilaster strips and an entablature. Three-bay elevations extend to Hawkhill and Brook Street, also featuring ground floor pilasters. The rear is a plain, rubble-built structure with new steps and doors leading to Johnston’s Lane.

The roof is piended and slate-covered, with a central timber Italianate clock turret dated 1864. The turret is square, with dwarf Doric pilasters, a clock face, and a low, pyramidal lead roof, flanked by canted dormers. A central ridge stack is present, along with side wallhead stacks built of rubble. Original windows are 12-pane sash and case style, set within margins. The building has recently undergone restoration, and the interior has been modernized. The statutory address is 53-61 (odd numbers) West Port and 3, 5 Johnston's Lane.

Local climate

53-55 West Port, 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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