26-8 High Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. Commercial building, tenement. 3 related planning applications.
26-8 High Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- waning-frieze-starling
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1994
- Type
- Commercial building, tenement
- Address
- 26-8 High Street, Dundee, DD1 1TA
- OS grid reference
- NO 402 301
- Coordinates
- 56.45997, -2.97042
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
26-8 High Street in Dundee is a commercial and tenement building dating from around 1785. It stands four storeys tall with an attic and is located on a corner site. The exterior features painted rubble, which may have originally been harled or lime plastered, along with painted ashlar dressings and a piended grey slate roof. The ground floor has modern shopfronts, while the upper floors showcase margined windows with timber casements and fixed panels above, leading to the third floor, which has leaded glass. The building also has rusticated quoins, ashlar-coped skews with skewblocks, and an angle die, with brick stacks.
On the High Street elevation, the building has five bays arranged in a 1-2-1-1 pattern. The ground floor consists of shopfronts, and there are five windows on the first, second, and third floors that are symmetrically arranged. The centre features a wallhead gable with two small windows. The Crichton Street elevation has three bays, with shopfronts on the ground floor, paired and two single windows on the first floor, and three windows on the second and third floors, although the centre windows are blocked.
The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
26-8 High 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 — 3 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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