Caird Wing, Dundee Royal Infirmary, Barrack Road, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 July 1993. Hospital.
Caird Wing, Dundee Royal Infirmary, Barrack Road, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- keen-cobble-myrtle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1993
- Type
- Hospital
- OS grid reference
- NO 396 308
- Coordinates
- 56.46617, -2.98168
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Caird Wing at Dundee Royal Infirmary, designed by James Findlay in 1907, is a robust three-storey building with an attic, featuring symmetrical stacks of wards and towers influenced by Northern European architecture on either side of the operating theatre. Constructed from red engineering brick with artificial stone dressings, the building includes cills and band courses.
The south elevation of each ward stack has full-height glazed steel-framed and steel-clad verandahs, which may have been added in the 1920s or 1930s and were originally more open as part of the healing process. There are tall, near free-standing, four-storey toilet and stair towers at the rear of the operating theatre, which have two and three-light slit windows.
The gables are arranged in a three-bay design, and a modern day room has been added to the ground floor of the west gable. The north elevation features brickwork with a central stair tower, and a ground floor porch with a swept roof is situated between flat-roofed projections. The upper floors are connected by "Bridges of Sighs," which have low mullioned strip windows.
The roofs are piended with red tiles, featuring swept overhanging eaves and swept-roofed dormers. The windows are primarily four-light casements and top-hoppers.
Inside, steel beams span the load-bearing walls, and there are segmental arched doorways leading to the wards, with collar beam roofs. The operating theatre, along with the basement Orthotic Department, is polygonal in shape and has small basement windows. It features pilaster strips leading to metal-railed balconies, large windows that are now blocked, a coved cornice, and a tiled roof. A glazed plant room has been added to the roof on the south elevation.
Local climate
Caird Wing, Dundee Royal Infirmary, Barrack 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Dundee Royal Infirmary, Barrack Road, Dundee
- 2 Former Recreation Hall, Bangour Village Hospital
- 3 Old Medical School, 56 Small's Wynd, Dundee
- 4 Royal Halifax Infirmary Blocks 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 08, 10, 20, 22, 35, 38
- 5 Former Kidderminster General Hospital including revetment and front area railings to south west
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- 2 Dudhope Terrace, Dundee
- 3 Dudhope Terrace, Dundee
- 1 Dudhope Terrace, Dundee
- 4 Dudhope Terrace, Dundee
- 5 Dudhope Terrace, Dundee
- 1 Somerville Place, Dundee
- Gate Lodge, Dundee Royal Infirmary, Barrack Road, Dundee
- 2 Panmure Terrace, Dundee
- 1 Panmure Terrace, Dundee
- Druimbeg, 3 Panmure Terrace, Dundee