Cabmen's Shelter, Gray Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1991. Shelter. 3 related planning applications.

Cabmen's Shelter, Gray Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

WRENN ID
shadowed-quartz-marsh
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 October 1991
Type
Shelter
Address
Cabmen's Shelter, Gray Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, DD5 2DN
OS grid reference
NO 463 309
Coordinates
56.46741, -2.87315
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Cabmen's Shelter on Gray Street in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was built in 1878. It is a single-storey, rectangular-plan structure designed to provide shelter for cabmen. The exterior features weatherboarding and a grey slate piended roof with a truncated ridge stack and two finials. The building has deep eaves, angle brackets at the east and west ends, and exposed rafter ends.

On the east elevation, there is a door and a tripartite window to the right, which has multi-pane upper glazing.

Local climate

Cabmen's Shelter, Gray Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee 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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