East Block, 8 Tait's Lane, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1989.
East Block, 8 Tait's Lane, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- unlit-rubblework-ochre
- 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
- 56.45721, -2.99385
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
East Block, 8 Tait’s Lane, Dundee is a simple, three-storey tenement building dating to circa 1860. It comprises three blocks, divided by ridge stacks, and originally provided 18 flats. The building is constructed of rubble.
The south elevation features two free-standing, semi-circular stair towers. These provide access to the first and second-floor flats via pletties – stone, flagged balconies supported on narrow steel members – with wrought-iron railings. A western stair serves a single tenement with two flats per pletty. Each floor contains paired doors flanked by a slit window and a single main window. An eastern stair serves a double tenement with four flats per pletty; the windows are arranged in a 1-2-1, 1-2-1 pattern between the doors, with adjacent slit windows.
The north elevation has a twelve-window front. The western tenement features two single lights and paired central slit windows. The eastern and central tenements have windows grouped in pairs between tall centre wallhead stacks. The west gable features off-centre single windows and a blocked door on the ground floor. Skewputts and gable end stacks are also present.
The roof is slate, with gable end, ridge, and wallhead stacks. The windows are predominantly four-pane sash and case, although some have been altered.
The building was selected for group value as one of the least altered examples of a mid-19th century Dundee tenement with pletties, and retains its original stacks, lacking later water closet towers.
Local climate
East Block, 8 Tait's Lane, 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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