Victoria Chambers, 10, 12, Victoria Road, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1993. Blocks of flats. 1 related planning application.

Victoria Chambers, 10, 12, Victoria Road, Dundee

WRENN ID
still-cinder-cedar
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 March 1993
Type
Blocks of flats
Address
Victoria Chambers, 10, 12, Victoria Road, Dundee, DD1 1JN
OS grid reference
NO 402 306
Coordinates
56.46443, -2.97177
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Victoria Chambers, located at 10 and 12 Victoria Road in Dundee, was designed by William Alexander in 1874. This building consists of three four-storey blocks of flats and business chambers, showcasing a Renaissance architectural style. The identical facades feature seven-window arrangements, spaced in a 3-1-3 pattern, and are adorned with pilasters that have facetted rustication at the ground floor and channel jointing on the first and second floors.

The ground floor is channelled, with architraved windows above segment-headed openings in the basement. Central doorways are arched and keyblocked, set within panelled pilasters that support twin consoles with pediments. The building is decorated with richly sculptured Greek key friezes. The first-floor windows are consoled and feature alternating triangular and segmental pediments along with recessed aprons. The second-floor windows are architraved above a cill string, and the main entablature includes a panelled frieze and a mutule cornice. The third-floor windows are also architraved, with a secondary upper cornice and a panelled parapet. The building has prominent central wallhead stacks with bracket cornices, as well as ridge stacks.

The roof is slate, and the windows are sash and case with a two-pane glazing pattern, as originally built. The gable facing Russell Lane is constructed of rubble, and the rear of the building is also rubble-built.

Local climate

Victoria Chambers, 10, 12, Victoria 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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