240 Hilltown. Dundee Saving's Bank, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 August 1985. Bank.
240 Hilltown. Dundee Saving's Bank, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- lost-pediment-honey
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1985
- Type
- Bank
- OS grid reference
- NO 400 312
- Coordinates
- 56.46938, -2.97532
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
240 Hilltown, also known as Dundee Savings Bank, is a two-storey bank building constructed in 1904 by David W Baxter of Johnston and Baxter. It features a red ashlar free Baronial style and is located on a corner site.
The building has a circular corner tourelle that contains the entrance vestibule, which is highlighted by a projecting pedimental doorpiece with a triple transom light above it. On the ground floor, there are two corniced and transomed single-light windows, while the first floor has three similar windows. The building is topped with a corbelled cornice and a conical roof that includes a wrought-iron finial.
Flanking gables are present on both frontages, each featuring a five-light double transomed window on the ground floor and a three-light transomed window on the first floor. These windows are adorned with a keystone and a small semi-circular armorial pediment, set within a semi-elliptically arched recess. The building also has diapered stacks.
On Stirling Street, there are three additional bays that exhibit similar window designs, with three-light windows on the ground floor and cross windows on the first floor. The building is finished with a carved parapet, slate roofs, and diapered gable end stacks.
Inside, while some modernisation has occurred, several good contemporary wooden doorpieces remain intact.
Local climate
240 Hilltown. Dundee Saving's Bank, 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- 6 Stirling Street, Dundee
- 2 Kinghorne Road, Dundee
- Barrie's Clock, Hilltown, Dundee
- St Salvador's Espiscopal Church Hall, St Salvodor Street, Dundee
- Rosebank Church, Constitution Street, Dundee
- St Salvador's Episcopal Church, St Salvador Street, Dundee
- Gates & Gatepiers, Bowbridge Works, Thistle Street, Dundee
- 14 Constitution Terrace, Dundee
- Rose House, 16 Constitution Terrace, Dundee
- 12 Constitution Terrace, Dundee