36-42 Union Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 February 1965. 3 related planning applications.

36-42 Union Street, Dundee

WRENN ID
tangled-solder-sedge
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 February 1965
Address
36-42 Union Street, Dundee, DD1 4BE
OS grid reference
NO 402 300
Coordinates
56.45903, -2.97053
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This public house, located at 42 Union Street in Dundee, is an earlier 19th-century building that stands four stories tall with an attic and features a four-bay tenemental design with shops on the ground floor. The exterior is constructed from sandstone ashlar and topped with a slate roof. The ground floor has a cornice, and there is a cill band at the second floor level, along with an eaves course. The first and second floor windows have lugged architraves, and the original 12-pane timber sash and case glazing pattern is preserved in the two left-hand bays of the second floor and the two right-hand bays of the third floor. The other windows have a two-pane design, except for the two left-hand bays of the third floor, which feature out-of-character casements. The roof includes two multi-pane box dormers and two piended dormers, along with ridge stacks.

On the front elevation, there is a close door to the right of the ground floor, an altered shopfront to the left, and a little altered public house front to the right. Each upper floor has four windows, and there are four dormers above.

Inside, the public house retains much of its original character, highlighted by notable etched glass that reads 'The Star and Garter'.

Local climate

36-42 Union 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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