Camperdown Zoo, Camperdown Park, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1993. Walled garden, former kitchen garden.
Camperdown Zoo, Camperdown Park, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- long-vestry-falcon
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1993
- Type
- Walled garden, former kitchen garden
- OS grid reference
- NO 357 326
- Coordinates
- 56.4817, -3.04524
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Camperdown Zoo, located in Camperdown Park, Dundee, was designed by John Hay in 1807. It features a large rectangular walled garden with external walls made of rubble and ashlar copes, and a cavity brick-built internal face. The garden includes large segmental arched openings.
On the northeast elevation, known as the "Pineapple House," there is a projecting ashlar pavilion that has arched openings, an impost-level band course, and a main cornice, topped with a slate roof and a pineapple finial. Lean-to worksheds with large gable openings are present; the western shed has been somewhat altered, while the eastern shed features a 10-bay design with 6 windows and 4 doors, adjacent to a modern two-storey house.
At the northeast angle, there is a two-storey gardener's house with overhanging eaves. This house has a brick-built gable facing the garden, adorned with ashlar dressings, cornices, and vertically channelled stacks. The windows are of the sash and case type.
The original internal arrangement of terracing and compartments has been removed to create the zoo. There is also an unusual form of cast-iron framed greenhouses, which were replaced by standard aluminium structures around 1980.
Local climate
Camperdown Zoo, Camperdown 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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