281 Perth Road, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1989. Terrace. 3 related planning applications.
281 Perth Road, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- gilded-flue-heath
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1989
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- 281 Perth Road, Dundee, DD2 1JS
- OS grid reference
- NO 383 298
- Coordinates
- 56.45678, -3.00245
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
281 Perth Road in Dundee is a two-storey and attic terrace building, constructed around 1870. The front is finished in ashlar, while the sides and rear are made of rubble.
The terrace includes Nos 271-287, each featuring a two-bay design with a Corinthianesque columned doorpiece to the right and a canted bay window spanning both floors to the left. No 289 has a three-bay layout with a central Corinthianesque doorpiece and flanking canted bays. Nos 291-297 also have a three-bay design with a central Corinthianesque doorpiece (originally from No 297), a canted bay to the left, and tripartite ground floor and bipartite first floor windows to the right, with the arrangement reversed at No 293.
The terrace has a continuous cornice and blocking course, with round arched dormers throughout, except for a later dormer added at No 295. There is a timber verandah and porch at the west gable, facing Rockfield Street, but there is an unfortunate modern addition at the east gable.
The windows are sash and case style, set in architraves with a two-pane glazing pattern. The roof is slate, and there are ashlar ridge stacks. A rubble-built boundary wall features simple ashlar gatepiers.
Local climate
281 Perth 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 — 3 applications
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