YMCA Gymnasium, 151 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1991. 1 related planning application.
YMCA Gymnasium, 151 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- fossil-bracket-pearl
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1991
- Address
- YMCA Gymnasium, 151 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, DD5 1DJ
- OS grid reference
- NO 460 309
- Coordinates
- 56.46797, -2.87722
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a large, rectangular gymnasium built in 1893 for the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), designed by George MacLaren of James McLaren and Sons. Constructed of red and ochre brick, it features a slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Cream brick dressings and pilasters are present on the south and east elevations, along with a lean-to extension at the north end, which has a jerkin-head roof with dormers.
The south elevation includes an advanced, gabled entrance porch centrally positioned, and a rainwater pipe with decorative brackets on the right-hand side. The east elevation features a gauged brick decorative panel at its centre, inscribed “the gift of Alexander Jefferson Buist, Esq, president 1893”.
The interior retains many original features, including a timber hardwood floor, a painted boarded dado, and a lined waggon roof with simple traceried collar braces.
The building was funded by Alexander Jefferson Buist, who was president of the Broughty Ferry YMCA association, and the inaugural event was held on December 26, 1893. The YMCA, founded in London in 1844, had been established in Scotland by 1848. The Broughty Ferry YMCA was founded in 1866. Drawings dated March 1893 exist in the Dean of Guild records. This gymnasium is distinct from the larger YMCA building at the same address (listed separately as LB25766).
Local climate
YMCA Gymnasium, 151 Brook 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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