Kimberley Buildings, 38 Whitehall Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 February 1965. 4 related planning applications.
Kimberley Buildings, 38 Whitehall Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- stony-lime-rye
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1965
- Address
- Kimberley Buildings, 38 Whitehall Street, Dundee, DD1 4AF
- OS grid reference
- NO 403 301
- Coordinates
- 56.45943, -2.96986
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1891, Kimberley Buildings is a four-story and attic commercial building of three bays located on a corner site where Whitehall Street meets Whitehall Crescent in Dundee. The building is constructed of cream sandstone ashlar, with the ground floor painted. It has a slate Mansard roof. The ground floor is modillioned and corniced, with an open-work parapet above. A lintel band runs along the first floor and a cill band along the second. There is a consoled and modillioned main cornice over the second floor, a fluted and dentilled lintel band, a corniced wallhead course, and a balustraded parapet. The corner bay features single, canted, four-light windows architraved and pilastered to the first floor, with alternate segmental and triangular pediments. The second floor has colonette nook shafts and pilasters, while the third floor features shouldered pilasters with mannered volutes. The attic tower is round-headed. The windows are timber sash and case with two panes of glass. Corbelled and corniced ridge stacks are topped with uniform cream cans.
The front elevation has a panelled door at the centre, flanked by a more modern shopfront to the left and an original shopfront to the right, extending into the corner bay. This corner shopfront features cast-iron columns and banded pilasters. Single windows are found on the first, second, and third floors at the centre, with a canted window to the left and a corner bay window to the right, extending to the attic. A pedimented date panel sits above the corner bay window (the dome roof is missing), and there are a bipartite and round-headed dormer to the left. The interior of the building has not been inspected. The statutory address is 38 and 40 Whitehall Street, Kimberley Buildings.
Local climate
Kimberley Buildings, 38 Whitehall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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