68-9 High Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. Tenement, commercial. 2 related planning applications.
68-9 High Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-tracery-candle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1994
- Type
- Tenement, commercial
- Address
- 68-9 High Street, Dundee, DD1 1SD
- OS grid reference
- NO 403 302
- Coordinates
- 56.46091, -2.96983
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
68-9 High Street in Dundee is a late 18th century, four-storey and attic tenement building featuring five bays and shops on the ground floor. The structure is made of rendered rubble and has been re-clad at the first floor, topped with a grey slate roof. The main facade showcases margined windows with plate glass glazing set in timber sash and case frames, while the first floor features earlier 20th century metal-framed continuous glazing. The building has lead-covered ashlar-coped skews, brick ridge stacks, and a coped and shouldered wallhead stack located at the centre left of the front elevation.
The front elevation includes a broad pend entry situated to the centre left, flanked by modern shopfronts, and features two small piended dormer windows. The rear elevation has a pend entry to the centre right, with various windows above and a canted stairwell to the left, which is concealed at the lower floors by a two-storey, six-bay wing.
Inside, the upper floors are integrated with 70-73 High Street and Gardyne's Land, retaining some plain cornices, panelled reveals, and shutters. There is a former billiard room that boasts a high coombed ceiling and a row of decorative circular air vents, along with shallow brick vaulting.
Local climate
68-9 High Street, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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