2, 4 Whitehall Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 February 1965. 3 related planning applications.

2, 4 Whitehall Street, Dundee

WRENN ID
heavy-ember-quill
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 February 1965
Address
2, 4 Whitehall Street, Dundee, DD1 4AF
OS grid reference
NO 402 301
Coordinates
56.45982, -2.97073
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a late 19th-century commercial building on a corner site, located at 2 and 4 Whitehall Street and 4 and 6 Nethergate, Dundee. It is four stories high with an attic, and has shopfronts on the ground floor. A distinctive feature is the octagonal turret at the corner, rising to a fifth storey and topped with a finialled, faceted dome.

The building is constructed of cream sandstone ashlar, with a grey slate Mansard roof and fishscale slates covering the dome. Architectural details include a modillioned cornice at the ground floor, an open-work parapet above, lintel and cill bands to the first and second floors, a consoled and modillioned main cornice over the second floor with a fluted and dentilled lintel band, and a corniced wallhead course with a balustraded parapet. Pilasters are positioned at the left and right angles, each topped with swagged urn finials. The windows are predominantly architraved, single, bi-, and tripartite, with various decorative details. The angle window features a canted design, and a five-light window. First-floor windows have triangular and segmental pediments, second-floor windows have nook shafts and pilasters, third-floor windows are shouldered with mannered volutes, and the fourth-floor angle window is keystoned and pilastered. Most windows feature two-pane timber sash and case glazing, while corniced ridge stacks are topped with mostly uniform cream cans.

The Whitehall Street elevation includes a modern shopfront dating from 1993, with a close door to the right. Above are single windows, a tripartite window to the right, and angle windows to the left, extending up to the third floor. The turret is situated on the left at the fourth floor, incorporating a segmental and bipartite dormer.

The Nethergate elevation also has modern shopfronts on the ground floor, and windows to each upper floor. These comprise a bipartite window, a canted window, a single window, a bipartite window, and a single window from left to right. There are two keystoned and round-headed dormers, and three bipartite box dormers.

The interior of the building has not been inspected.

Local climate

2, 4 Whitehall 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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