Timex Factory, Harrison Road, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 September 1989. Factory. 7 related planning applications.
Timex Factory, Harrison Road, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- scattered-brass-soot
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 September 1989
- Type
- Factory
- Address
- Timex Factory, Harrison Road, Dundee, DD2 3SN
- OS grid reference
- NO 371 329
- Coordinates
- 56.48456, -3.02199
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Timex Factory, located on Harrison Road in Dundee, was designed by Bennet, Beard and Williams and constructed between 1946 and 1947, with full completion around 1960. This clock and watch factory features long horizontal Modern facades and is clad in yellow stock brick on a rubble-built base. It is situated on the crest of a hill, with lawns sloping to the south.
The south elevation consists of a single-storey manufacturing block that has a continuous band of windows with concrete mullions and a high coped parapet. The entrance, which is made of projecting red rubble, is approached by steps on the right and features a flat roof with a cantilevered canopy. To the east, there is a taller flat-roofed office block, which has a 4-light window placed asymmetrically to balance the "TIMEX" sign.
On the east elevation, the office steps down on the left side. It features a horizontal band of windows that has been partly infilled and reduced to three single lights. There is an angled works entrance set back to the right, with original six-leaf doors beneath a concrete canopy, and a porthole window to the left.
Most of the windows retain their original metal framed glazing pattern. A low rubble-built garden wall extends from the office entrance to Harrison Road, featuring a semi-circular bow to accommodate a flagpole.
Local climate
Timex Factory, Harrison Road, 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 — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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