Ward Foundry Office, 7 Guthrie Street, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1989. Social club, former office.

Ward Foundry Office, 7 Guthrie Street, Dundee

WRENN ID
under-alcove-hawthorn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 June 1989
Type
Social club, former office
Address
Ward Foundry Office, 7 Guthrie Street, Dundee, DD1 5DR
OS grid reference
NO 396 303
Coordinates
56.46124, -2.9803
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Ward Foundry Office, located at 7 Guthrie Street in Dundee, was built between 1891 and 1892 by C and L Ower. This two-storey building is constructed of ashlar stone with polished dressings set on a rubble base. It features a prominent corner entrance that is highlighted by pilasters and an arched doorpiece with a keystone and cornice. Narrow flanking windows are framed in architraves. On the first floor, there are paired round-headed windows with pilastered archivolts. The main cornice is topped with a simplified pediment.

On the south elevation, the ground floor has three tripartite windows within an architrave, with a band course above. The first floor features five round-headed windows with aprons and an impost level string course. A scrolled wallhead stack is present. The west elevation has similar details to the south elevation.

Inside, the original features are mostly obscured by false ceilings, but some cornices and the staircase remain visible. The drawing room originally had a wide arched laminated timber roof, which is now hidden.

Local climate

Ward Foundry Office, 7 Guthrie 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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