Gates & Gatepiers, Bowbridge Works, Thistle Street, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 May 1987. Gate and gatepiers.

Gates & Gatepiers, Bowbridge Works, Thistle Street, Dundee

WRENN ID
final-doorway-vermeil
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 May 1987
Type
Gate and gatepiers
OS grid reference
NO 400 315
Coordinates
56.47182, -2.97454
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The gates and gatepiers at Bowbridge Works on Thistle Street in Dundee were built around 1930. They feature two channelled ashlar pillars designed in an Art Deco style, with margins, an architraved and keyblocked doorpiece, and pulvinated Greek key capitals topped with carriage lamps. The gates themselves are made up of horizontal and vertical bars, adorned with narrow panels of cast metal that depict bas relief thistles and intertwined foliage. Additionally, there is a smaller pedestrian gate that includes a plaque showing Lawrence of Arabia leaning on a camel.

Local climate

Gates & Gatepiers, Bowbridge Works, Thistle 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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