21 Albert Square, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1995. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
21 Albert Square, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- steep-entrance-sage
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1995
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 21 Albert Square, Dundee, DD1 1DJ
- OS grid reference
- NO 403 304
- Coordinates
- 56.46251, -2.97008
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
21 Albert Square in Dundee is a commercial building from the later 19th century, featuring three stories and an attic with a three-bay design. The front is constructed of sandstone ashlar, while the sides and rear are made of rubble, topped with a piended grey slate roof. The ground floor has a cornice, and the first floor is adorned with Ionic pilasters, a plain frieze, and a cornice. The second floor features Corinthian pilasters, a plain frieze, and a dentilled main cornice, with a deep coped parapet that has dormerheads. The windows on the first and second floors are architraved, with ornamental lintels supported by consoles on the first floor and segmental pediments with sculpted tympani on the second. The central dormerhead is segmentally aediculaed, flanked by round-headed dormerheads, each topped with florid palmette finials. The building has modern window frames that are out of character with the original design. The end stacks are segmentally-coped and corniced at the rear.
The front elevation features a modern shopfront at ground level, with three windows on both the first and second floors, and three dormerheads above. The rear elevation has a ground floor that is obscured by a modern addition, with various windows on the upper floors and two dormers. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
21 Albert Square, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- 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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