31, 33 Commercial Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994.
31, 33 Commercial Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- calm-barrel-quill
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1994
- OS grid reference
- NO 404 303
- Coordinates
- 56.4613, -2.96723
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
27 and 29 Commercial Street in Dundee is a late 19th-century tenement and commercial building designed by John Bruce. It features five storeys and an attic, with a seven-bay façade made of sandstone ashlar and topped with a slate roof. The ground floor has shopfronts with original piers and a cornice, including two double doors set in a keystoned and pilastered round-headed doorcase with a fanlight above.
The building has a corniced parapet and paired brackets at the left-hand door. The first floor is channelled, with a cill course at the second floor. The third floor features a frieze and a dentilled and corbelled main cornice, along with a wallhead course and cornice. The first-floor windows are shouldered with moulded cavetto reveals, while the second floor has five centrally placed windows that are architraved with alternating triangular and segmental pediments, corbelled cills, and cill panels. The third and fourth floors have architraved windows, with the fourth floor featuring keystoned and round-headed windows.
The dormers include a single aediculed dormer (with the pediment removed), two round-headed leaded dormers on the left and right, and bipartite pedimented dormers at both ends. The windows throughout are fitted with two-pane timber sash and case frames, and there are corniced axial stacks on the roof.
The front elevation has a central door on the ground floor, with another door to the right, both flanked by shopfronts. There are eleven windows on the first floor, five on the second and third floors flanked by two-storey canted oriels, nine windows on the fourth floor, and seven dormers above. The interior details were not observed.
Local climate
31, 33 Commercial 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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