5 Bank Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. Commercial building. 11 related planning applications.
5 Bank Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- silent-glass-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1994
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 5 Bank Street, Dundee, DD1 1RL
- OS grid reference
- NO 402 303
- Coordinates
- 56.46135, -2.97182
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 Bank Street in Dundee is a commercial building designed by James MacLaren in 1878. It has four storeys and a basement, featuring five bays and a classical design. The exterior is finished in cream ashlar stone, with rubble at the rear, and topped with a grey slate platform roof that includes a cupola. The building has a base course and a channelled ground floor, along with a wallhead cornice that is bracketted, although the balustraded parapet has been removed.
The windows on the first and second floors are architraved, with the first floor featuring pediments and balustraded aprons, while the second floor has segmental pediments with consoles at the centre. The third floor windows are margined but appear to be abraded. The glazing consists of 2- and 4-pane timber sash and case windows, with some 12-pane windows located at the rear.
On the front elevation, there is a central door framed by a paired pilaster doorpiece, flanked by two windows set in recessed panels with pilastered reveals. Below, there are four basement windows. The first, second, and third floors each have five windows.
The rear elevation includes five stair windows positioned to the centre right, a single window on the right side for all four floors, and a single window on the left side for the ground and first floors, with tripartite windows on the second and third floors. Inside, the building features some ornamental plaster cornices and ceiling roses.
Local climate
5 Bank Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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