Magdalen House, 1 & 1A Magdalen Place, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 February 1965. Villa.

Magdalen House, 1 & 1A Magdalen Place, Dundee

WRENN ID
waning-grate-yarrow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 February 1965
Type
Villa
OS grid reference
NO 392 295
Coordinates
56.45374, -2.98657
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Magdalen House, located at 1 and 1A Magdalen Place in Dundee, is a villa built around 1850. It is two stories high and has three bays, constructed from coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. The south elevation features a central doorpiece with Doric columns and a cornice. The ground floor windows have cornices and architraves, while the first floor windows include a cill band and margins. The building has a main cornice and a blocking course, and the west elevation has four bays. It is topped with a piended slate roof and has gable-end stacks. The windows are sash and case style with horizontal astragals. Additionally, there is a boundary wall and square gatepiers.

Local climate

Magdalen House, 1 & 1A Magdalen Place, 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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