Sunningdale, 1 Ralston Road, West Ferry, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1991. Villa. 1 related planning application.

Sunningdale, 1 Ralston Road, West Ferry, Dundee

WRENN ID
long-lintel-tide
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 October 1991
Type
Villa
Address
Sunningdale, 1 Ralston Road, West Ferry, Dundee, DD5 1NQ
OS grid reference
NO 442 310
Coordinates
56.46862, -2.90721
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Sunningdale, located at 1 Ralston Road in West Ferry, Dundee, is a 2-storey, 3-bay Art Deco villa designed by Donald Ross of Thoms and Wilkie, dated 1933. The building features smooth rendered brick construction and a flat roof. It has a base course and includes plate-glass and top-hinged windows, although some have been replaced with uPVC frames that are out of character. The windows have terracotta cills and louvred shutters, and the parapet is adorned with a vertically fluted frieze and crimped coping. The moulded stacks have identical cans.

On the east elevation, there is a partially glazed entrance door on the left, framed by a moulded ashlar doorcase and a flat-roofed canopy. Small windows and low plinths flank the entrance, with a small window centered above on the first floor and a slender stair window to the right. A projecting canted bay at the far right features a chimneybreast in the center, with a full-height canted window on the left and a similar window on the right forming an angle with the north elevation.

The south elevation has a recessed bay at the center with modern sliding doors on the ground floor, and a tripartite window on the first floor that opens onto a canted deck-balcony dated 1933, complete with a flag pole and flat-roofed canopy. Each outer bay has symmetrically placed windows on both the ground and first floors.

The north elevation features an off-set entrance door on the left with a wide plain doorcase, along with windows on both the ground and first floors. There is a recessed bay at the far right with symmetrically placed windows.

On the west elevation, a chimneybreast is located at the center, flanked by windows on both the ground and first floors.

The property is enclosed by coped harled walls, with a garage situated on falling ground to the east and a similar wall to the east that includes two gatepiers and railings.

Local climate

Sunningdale, 1 Ralston Road, West 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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