Clepington Sluice Chamber, 371 Clepington Road, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1993. Sluice house.
Clepington Sluice Chamber, 371 Clepington Road, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- far-loft-jay
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1993
- Type
- Sluice house
- OS grid reference
- NO 391 323
- Coordinates
- 56.47889, -2.98993
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Clepington Sluice Chamber, built in 1873 by J and A Leslie for the Dundee Water Commissioners, is a single-storey castellated sluice house designed on an octagonal lozenge plan. The exterior features droved ashlar with polished ashlar dressings and a snecked rubble rear, topped with an encircling corbelled castellated parapet.
On the Clepington Road side, there are two bipartite windows and single lights at the chamfered angles. The western end has a cylindrical turret with a roll-moulded string course and a roundel at the first floor, also with a castellated parapet. The entrance porch on the eastern side has a crow-stepped gable, carved skewputts, and a roundel. The rear elevation is blind. The roof of the porch is slate, and the windows are sash and case with a 2-pane glazing pattern.
Inside, the chamber remains unaltered, featuring six original geared sluice valves made by Glenfield and Co Ltd from Kilmarnock, a pressure recorder by George Kent, and gauges by Shaffer and Budenberg, which operate three underground pipes.
The property is enclosed by a low rubble-built boundary wall and includes a wrought-iron gate.
Local climate
Clepington Sluice Chamber, 371 Clepington Road, 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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