The Howff, Barrack Street, Dundee is a Grade A listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 July 1963. Burial ground. 4 related planning applications.
The Howff, Barrack Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- muffled-chancel-nettle
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1963
- Type
- Burial ground
- OS grid reference
- NO 401 303
- Coordinates
- 56.46153, -2.9728
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Howff is a burial ground established in 1564, featuring blind arcading from 1601. The wall and railings facing Meadowside were designed by David Neave in 1828, while the gateway to Barrack Street was created by James Black in 1833. The eastern boundary consists of a high rubble and ashlar sandstone wall, which includes a blind arcade that may have once been open, adorned with sculpted capitals and memorials that face the burial ground. There is a roofed burial enclosure to the south, along with a round-headed gateway supported by piers, featuring sarcophagus caps and a large achievement of arms at the parapet, complemented by iron gates. The site also has two capped rusticated gatepiers with iron gates. To the Meadowside, there is a low saddleback-coped ashlar wall that curves towards Barrack Street, with both single and paired gates and tall iron railings. The southern and eastern boundaries are formed by the rear elevations of Bank and Reform Streets, respectively. The burial ground contains funerary monuments dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Local climate
The Howff, Barrack 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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