Draffen & Jarvie, 36 Nethergate, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1995. Department store. 6 related planning applications.
Draffen & Jarvie, 36 Nethergate, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-doorway-blackthorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1995
- Type
- Department store
- Address
- Draffen & Jarvie, 36 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4ET
- OS grid reference
- NO 402 301
- Coordinates
- 56.4595, -2.97124
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Draffen and Jarvie is a department store located at 36 Nethergate in Dundee, designed by Thoms and Wilkie in 1935. It is a four-storey building with an attic and features a three-bay addition. The facade is made of ashlar on a steel frame, with a polished grey granite shopfront and a flat roof. Notable architectural elements include a vertically ribbed band course above the ground and third floors, a bracketed balcony with an open-work parapet on the second floor, and a dentilled cornice adorned with lion gargoyles at the third floor. The building has tall border-glazed metal-framed windows, pilastered on the first floor, and architraved and recessed in panels on the second and third floors, with cast metal panels between the floors. The attic features square windows.
The front elevation includes the original shopfront on the ground floor, which has a recessed doorway and metal-framed plate-glass windows. There are three windows each on the first, second, and third floors, along with three attic windows. The right return elevation mirrors the front elevation but is two bays wide, continuing down Coutties's Wynd with plain render and various windows.
Local climate
Draffen & Jarvie, 36 Nethergate, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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