Dounans And Gates, 5 Arnhall Drive, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1989. House. 1 related planning application.
Dounans And Gates, 5 Arnhall Drive, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- seventh-kitchen-furze
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dounans And Gates, 5 Arnhall Drive, Dundee, DD2 1LU
- OS grid reference
- NO 372 299
- Coordinates
- 56.45717, -3.02012
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dounans and Gates, located at 5 Arnhall Drive in Dundee, is a two-storey brick-built structure designed by W W Friskin around 1935. The building features a harled cube shape with a brick base and projecting brick courses beneath the eaves.
On the west elevation, there is an off-centre triple light on the ground floor, with a roundel to the left and two tripartite windows above. The south elevation has small single lights. The north elevation includes an entrance with a roll-moulded ashlar surround situated in the re-entrant angle of an advanced bay, along with a triple light on the first floor and a flat roof. The east elevation features a cantilevered balcony on the first floor, which has modern railings in the northeast re-entrant angle.
The building is topped with a steep piended slate roof that meets at a central ridge stack. It also has sash and case windows. The property is enclosed by low brick walls and features inventive wrought-iron and tubular steel railings and gates.
Local climate
Dounans And Gates, 5 Arnhall Drive, 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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