37-39 Fort Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 1972. Shop and flats. 1 related planning application.

37-39 Fort Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

WRENN ID
quiet-cellar-spindle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 October 1972
Type
Shop and flats
Address
37-39 Fort Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, DD5 2AD
OS grid reference
NO 460 307
Coordinates
56.46595, -2.87702
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

37-39 Fort Street in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, is a mid-19th century, two-storey building with an attic that serves as a shop and flats. The structure features coursed stonework with polished margins and a slate roof. The shopfronts are rendered, lined, and painted, and there is a moulded cornice with dentils above the shop area. The first floor has 12-pane sash and case windows.

On the Fort Street elevation, there is a shopfront on the left, a recessed central door with iron gates, and flanking plate-glass windows, with a modern door on the right. The first floor has two windows, and the gable on the left has a skew gable with a skewputt and a truncated harled gable stack, while a rubble ridge capped stack is located on the right. The right gable features two plate-glass windows, flanked by Doric pilasters, and a cut-back canted corner. There are two widely spaced windows on the first floor, a band course, and a small offset window in the attic, along with skew gables and skewputts.

The King Street elevation includes a two-leaf panelled door at the angle, with scrolled corbelling leading to the first floor. There are four bays on the right, with a two-leaf panelled door in the second bay from the right. The other bays feature plate-glass windows and five sets of paired Doric pilasters. The first floor has three windows, and there are two canted bays in the attic, along with a coped ridge stack on the right and terracotta ridge tiles.

Local climate

37-39 Fort Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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