Pavilion, Baxter Park, Dundee is a Grade A listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 July 1963. Pavilion.
Pavilion, Baxter Park, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- steep-forge-raven
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1963
- Type
- Pavilion
- OS grid reference
- NO 415 315
- Coordinates
- 56.47216, -2.95081
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Pavilion in Baxter Park, Dundee, was designed by G H Stokes between 1859 and 1863, with a layout by Sir Joseph Paxton. This Italian Renaissance pavilion features a five-bay open loggia supported by clusters of four Roman Doric columns, with keyblocked arches that are consoled. The loggia extends into square corner pavilions, which are adorned with coupled Ionic pilasters at the angles and plain blind arches on the east and west fronts, although the glazing is now boarded over.
The pavilion has balustraded parapets, and the end pavilions rise higher, topped with conical finials on sculptured plinths. The back wall is arcaded, with lower outshots at re-entrant angles and a central niche in the loggia.
Steps align with the central axis, with dies that bear cast-iron urns at both the top and bottom, although the balustrade is missing. The boundary walls to the park are low and coped, with missing railings except at Wortley Place. Square ashlar gatepiers are present on Arbroath Road, along with a cast iron over-arch, but the gates are missing.
Local climate
Pavilion, Baxter Park, 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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