50, 52 Albert Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1989. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
50, 52 Albert Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- empty-forge-crag
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1989
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 50, 52 Albert Street, Dundee, DD4 6QQ
- OS grid reference
- NO 410 311
- Coordinates
- 56.46919, -2.958
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
50 and 52 Albert Street in Dundee is a four-storey, seven-bay tenement building designed by Alexander Johnston in 1895. It serves as a key part of a larger model tenement development. The structure is built from squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. The ground floor features shopfronts supported by slim pseudo-Ionic pilasters. The upper floor windows are margined, with cornices on the first floor and continuous cill courses on the second and third floors.
The elevation facing the street has a broad four-bay curve, with the outer bays being bipartite. At the center, there is a crow-stepped gable that includes a hoodmoulded attic light and a ball finial, flanked by swept-roofed, lead-capped bartizans. Canted oriels project onto Albert Street and Arthurstone Terrace, rising from the first and third floors and topped with conical turrets. To the right of the oriel at Arthurstone Terrace, there is a single bipartite bay. A wallhead stack is located to the right of the oriel at Albert Street.
The roof is slate with wrought-iron finials on the turrets and features ridge stacks. The windows are sash and case with a two-pane glazing pattern.
Local climate
50, 52 Albert 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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