1 West Bell Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1995. Town house. 3 related planning applications.
1 West Bell Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- weathered-panel-gilt
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1995
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 1 West Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 1EX
- OS grid reference
- NO 399 304
- Coordinates
- 56.46247, -2.9754
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 West Bell Street in Dundee is a classical terraced town house attributed to James Black, built around 1840. The building is three storeys high, with an attic, basement, and sub-basement, situated on sloping ground. It is constructed from cream sandstone ashlar, with a stugged finish on the basement, a rusticated appearance on the ground floor, and rubble at the rear. The roof is covered with grey slate.
The front elevation features a band course at the ground floor, a cill band on the first and second floors, and an eaves course. The windows are margined in the basement, architraved and aproned on the first floor, and architraved on the second floor. The basement and ground floor have two-pane timber sash and case glazing, while the upper floors retain the original 12-pane pattern. The roof includes canted dormers.
The front entrance has a panelled door at the centre, accessed by steps that oversail the basement. There are windows on either side of the door, three windows on both the first and second floors, along with two rooflights and two dormers. The basement has a door and two windows.
At the rear, there is a door leading to the sub-basement and three windows on each upper floor. The interior features spear-headed iron railings leading to the steps and area.
Local climate
1 West Bell 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 — 3 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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