Public Library, Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1991. Public library. 2 related planning applications.
Public Library, Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- muted-stair-briar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1991
- Type
- Public library
- Address
- Public Library, Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, DD5 2HN
- OS grid reference
- NO 462 310
- Coordinates
- 56.4684, -2.87353
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The public library on Queen Street in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was designed by James MacLellan Brown and completed in 1928. It is a single-storey building with a rectangular plan and modern additions at the rear. The library features a classical style with a three-bay front, constructed from ashlar masonry, while the sides are made of snecked rubble. It has a base course, cornice, and parapet, topped with a flat roof.
The south elevation consists of three bays, with channelled quoins at the corners and an entablature that includes a parapet, which is balustraded above the outer bays. The central bay is advanced and features pilasters, a central doorpiece with a fanlight, and a two-leaf door adorned with wrought-iron grilles, flanked by windows. The outer bays each have a single window with bracketted cornices.
The east and west elevations are blank but include decorative cast-iron rainwater goods. Inside, the library has a painted cornice, large rooflights, and the original issue desk. Additionally, there are two cast-iron lamp standards by D W Windsor from Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, located on either side of the terraced steps at the south elevation.
Local climate
Public Library, Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee 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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