Submarine Mining Station, Broughty Ferry is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1991. Former depot. 1 related planning application.

Submarine Mining Station, Broughty Ferry

WRENN ID
shifting-buttress-dew
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 October 1991
Type
Former depot
Address
Submarine Mining Station, Broughty Ferry, DD5 2TF
OS grid reference
NO 465 304
Coordinates
56.46329, -2.86932
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Submarine Mining Station in Broughty Ferry, built between 1886 and 1887, is a former depot for submariners. It features a rectangular plan and is constructed of snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, topped with a slate and corrugated metal roof. The building has 12-pane sash and case windows, wall and gablehead courses, coped skews, and shouldered ridge stacks.

On the west elevation, there is a two-storey block on the left side, which includes four doors and windows on the ground floor. A veranda with cast-iron columns and an iron balustrade is accessed from a forestair at the left return gable. The first floor has two doors and eight windows, along with a partially glazed lean-to porch on the left. The single-storey block on the right has three elliptically-arched entrances and two windows, with an additional two windows on the right return gable.

The east elevation features a door and seven windows at the ground floor of the block on the right, while the single-storey block on the left has four multi-pane windows.

Surrounding the building is a round-coped snecked rubble wall that encloses the site on the north, south, east, and west sides.

Local climate

Submarine Mining Station, Broughty Ferry 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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