Lifeboat House And Slipway, Fisher Street, Broughty Ferry is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1991. Lifeboat house.
Lifeboat House And Slipway, Fisher Street, Broughty Ferry
- WRENN ID
- salt-roof-kestrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1991
- Type
- Lifeboat house
- Address
- Lifeboat House And Slipway, Fisher Street, Broughty Ferry, DD5 1EF
- OS grid reference
- NO 460 306
- Coordinates
- 56.465, -2.87723
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Lifeboat House and Slipway on Fisher Street in Broughty Ferry was designed by W T Douglass from Westminster and is dated 1909. It is a single-storey, rectangular-plan structure built from snecked bull-faced rubble masonry, featuring cast-iron rainwater goods and a slate roof. The slipway is made of steel and concrete.
The south gable has a flat-roofed projection with a vertically sliding boat door and a pedestrian door on the left, both set into a partially blocked former larger opening. Safety rails are positioned on either side of the slipway leading to the shore. The main gable is set back and displays '1909' at the gablehead.
On the north gable, there is a memorial plaque at the centre with a window above it, and 'RNL-BI' is inscribed at the pediment. The west elevation features stairs with railings leading to a door on the left, along with two stepped windows on the right and two rooflights. The east elevation has two stepped windows on the left and a flat-roofed projection with a window on the right.
Inside, the building has a kingpost roof with one hammerbeam to accommodate the hoisted lifeboat. The slipway extends from the south gable over the foreshore.
Local climate
Lifeboat House And Slipway, Fisher Street, Broughty Ferry 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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