3, 4 City Square, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. Commercial, office. 1 related planning application.

3, 4 City Square, Dundee

WRENN ID
ghost-sill-indigo
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1994
Type
Commercial, office
Address
3, 4 City Square, Dundee, DD1 3BA
OS grid reference
NO 403 302
Coordinates
56.46061, -2.96925
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

3 and 4 City Square in Dundee is a four-storey block designed by Sir John James Burnet in 1924, with significant redesign work by J MacLellan Brown between 1931 and 1933. The building features shops that match the design of the West Wing located opposite at 14-22 City Square, although it has a pavilion that is off-centre and shallower in projection.

The front facing the square has a five-bay central pavilion that corresponds to the West Wing, with a ground floor shop showcasing original details and flanking entrances framed by granite architraves. The first and second floor windows are vertically integrated within rusticated recesses, while there are flanking tripartite bays without shops. To the right, there is one bay without a shop, and to the left, there are eight bays with ground floor shops. The shop details along these eight bays and the High Street frontage have been largely modernised, although they were originally designed to have a unified treatment similar to the entrance of No 5, which features black granite.

There is a single-storey link to Caird Hall, with a glazed upper extension set back to the far right, and a pend leading through to Castle Street. The building has a single bay quadrant corner on the High Street frontage, with three bays at 7-8 High Street that feature giant Ionic pilasters, corresponding to the 22-24 High Street frontage of the West Wing. The three bays to the left have a simple treatment that continues with the left-hand eight bays of the City Square frontage. The glazing is consistent with that of the West Wing at the pavilion on the City Square frontage and in the right-hand bay only; the remainder has a T-divide at the first floor, with small paned sashes above.

Local climate

3, 4 City Square, 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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