Belsize House, 1 Belsize Road, West Ferry, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1991. Villa. 4 related planning applications.

Belsize House, 1 Belsize Road, West Ferry, Dundee

WRENN ID
frozen-joist-khaki
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 October 1991
Type
Villa
Address
Belsize House, 1 Belsize Road, West Ferry, Dundee, DD5 1NF
OS grid reference
NO 440 312
Coordinates
56.47012, -2.91054
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Belsize House, located at 1 Belsize Road in West Ferry, Dundee, dates from around 1910, with an eastern addition made around 1950 and a further large addition by Thoms and Wilkie in 1973. This irregular-plan Arts and Crafts villa features a single storey, two storeys, and an attic, with a harled exterior and a slate roof. The building has some transomed and mullioned windows with leaded panes on the south and west sides, along with other multi-pane timber casements and flat-roofed dormers. It is characterized by deep sweeping eaves with plain bargeboards and ashlar-coped and moulded stacks topped with terracotta cans.

On the northeast elevation, there is an integral entrance porch that is off-centre and flanked by windows, with a blank bay to the right. Above the porch, two dormers are set in the swept roof. To the left, there is a projecting stair gable with a window, and a wide recessed bay at the far left that includes a door, a back-stair window, and various other windows, dormers, and rooflights. Later additions in a sympathetic style are present at the outer left.

The west gable features a two-storey canted window on the right with a piended roof, a large window on the ground floor to the left, and a smaller window on the first floor.

The south elevation has an off-centre advanced gable with a window at both the ground and first floors set in a recessed round-headed panel. There are additional windows at the ground and first floors on the right return and the left return. A bay on the right includes a window at the first floor and two dormers. Modern additions are located at the far and outer right, while a further advanced single-storey gable at the left re-entrant, added in 1986, features a large segmental window and a window on the left return. The far left includes two round-headed windows, three windows at the first floor, and a dormer.

Inside, the villa has a wide-boarded outer hall with a cove ceiling, and a panelled inner hall with a half-timbered ceiling leading to a scale and platt staircase adorned with barley-sugar balusters. The dining room features fielded panelling, an ashlar chimneypiece, and a metal hood.

Additionally, there is a wrought-iron Arts and Crafts-type lamp standard and two rendered and lined gatepiers with bulbous ashlar caps, with 'Belsize' inscribed on the south gatepier.

Local climate

Belsize House, 1 Belsize Road, West Ferry, Dundee receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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