291 Hawkhill, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1989.
291 Hawkhill, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- tenth-chamber-winter
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1989
- OS grid reference
- NO 388 298
- Coordinates
- 56.45684, -2.99444
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
293 Hawkhill in Dundee is a building designed by James MacLaren and dated 1868, consisting of five tenements in the Jacobean style, which are stepped to accommodate the sloping ground. The structure is made of coursed and squared rubble with ashlar dressings.
Each tenement is framed by tall pilasters topped with urn finials. The central entrance on the ground floor features a consoled corniced doorpiece, flanked by single and bipartite windows. The ground floor has flat mouldings, with bipartite windows adorned with scrolled shields. The first-floor windows are pilastered and corniced, connected by aprons to the second-floor windows. A main band course runs along the building. The tall wall-head stack is constructed with rubble on the lower part and ashlar above, featuring flutings and apron panels. The roof is steeply pitched and platformed, covered with slate, and includes single and bipartite dormers.
Above the entrance to No. 289, there is a cartouche inscribed "C L Gowrie Place 1868". All windows are sash and case, with a 4-pane glazing pattern for single lights and 2 panes for bipartites.
Each entrance is accessed by steps that are situated between elaborately capped gatepiers. The property is also bordered by low coped garden walls with wrought-iron railings, although the railings are missing from No. 297.
Local climate
291 Hawkhill, 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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