Unit Offices, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 January 2001. Hospital. 2 related planning applications.

Unit Offices, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital

WRENN ID
still-forge-bittern
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 January 2001
Type
Hospital
Address
Unit Offices, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, DD2 5NF
OS grid reference
NO 343 328
Coordinates
56.48307, -3.06725
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Unit Offices at the Royal Dundee Liff Hospital were designed by Charles Edward and Thomas Saunders Robertson in the later 19th century. This is a two-storey and attic hospital building with an irregular plan, constructed from snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The exterior features single windows with chamfered jambs, as well as single and bipartite flat-roofed dormers. Originally, the windows were 4-pane timber sash and case, but these have been replaced with PVCu. The building has a moulded eaves course, crowstepped gables, and corniced stacks.

On the south (front) elevation, there are three bays that advance to the left, featuring a single-storey canted window in the centre with a crenellated parapet. To the right is an altered entrance door, with a window to the left. The first floor has three windows, and there is a dormer in the centre, along with a window in the flanking gables. The right return has a window on both the ground and first floors. To the right, there are five windows arranged in a 2-1-2 pattern across the ground and first floors of recessed bays, with a bipartite window at the gable. There are also two dormers to the left.

The west elevation features a door and various windows. The east elevation includes a fire escape to the first floor and attic. The north elevation has a three-storey tower. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.

Local climate

Unit Offices, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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