Ardarroch, 3 Douglas Terrace, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1993. Villa.
Ardarroch, 3 Douglas Terrace, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- buried-keep-rook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1993
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NO 393 309
- Coordinates
- 56.46678, -2.98543
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ardarroch, located at 3 Douglas Terrace in Dundee, is a large detached villa built in 1882 by William Alexander. The villa features two storeys and a basement, showcasing an Italianate tower. The front is made of ashlar stone with quoined angles, while the rear is constructed from snecked rubble. The elevation facing Douglas Terrace is symmetrical, with canted end bays at both the ground floor and basement, adorned with simple balustrades. The central section has a tripartite design, and the second floor includes architraved bipartite windows.
The villa features a set-back three-storey Italianate tower with a prominent doorpiece supported by heavy consoles. The top stage of the tower has triple arched lights and is decorated with a Romanesque corbel table. The roof is low and pyramidal, topped with a wrought-iron finial and a stack. The slate roofs are piended and platformed, featuring bracketed eaves and gable-end stacks. The windows are sash with a two-pane glazing pattern.
Surrounding the property are rubble-built boundary walls, which include square pyramidal-capped gatepiers.
Local climate
Ardarroch, 3 Douglas Terrace, 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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