20 Whitehall Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 February 1965. 3 related planning applications.
20 Whitehall Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- spare-sill-elder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1965
- Address
- 20 Whitehall Street, Dundee, DD1 4AF
- OS grid reference
- NO 403 301
- Coordinates
- 56.45962, -2.97025
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1885, 20 Whitehall Street is a 4-storey and attic commercial building with shopfronts on the ground floor. Constructed in cream sandstone ashlar with a grey slate Mansard roof, the building has a modillioned and corniced ground floor, an open-work parapet above, and a lintel band to the first floor. A consoled balcony extends across the three central bays of the second floor, featuring a decorative cast-iron parapet. A cill band is present on the second floor and a consoled and modillioned main cornice tops the second floor, complemented by a fluted and dentilled lintel band and a corniced wallhead course with a balustraded parapet. The windows are single and canted, with architraves, pilasters on the first floor, colonette nook shafts and pilasters on the second floor, and shouldered volutes on the third floor. They have 2-pane timber sash and case glazing. A pilaster with a swagged urn finial is found at the right-hand angle. Corbelled and corniced ridge stacks are also present.
The front elevation features a mask-keystoned round-headed doorway in the center, containing a two-leaf panelled door and a pilastered doorpiece with an open pediment and a cartouche date panel set within the tympanum. The shopfronts on either side have been altered. The first three floors have single windows in the center, flanked by canted windows in the outer bays. Three round-headed dormers, with bipartite windows on the left and right, are visible in the attic.
The interior remains unseen. The statutory address also includes 14-24 (even numbers) Whitehall Street and the building has connections with 7 and 9 Whitehall Street, as detailed in associated references and notes.
Local climate
20 Whitehall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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