Water Tower, Law Road, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1993. Water tower.

Water Tower, Law Road, Dundee

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 March 1993
Type
Water tower
OS grid reference
NO 395 313
Coordinates
56.47042, -2.98324
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The water tower on Law Road in Dundee was designed by David Baxter around 1920. It is a square-section, two-stage, one-bay structure built in the style of an old Scottish doocot, using hammer-dressed rubble.

The ground floor has a battered design and features a single light window and a relieving arch on each side. There is a door on the east elevation with an ashlar surround. The upper stage has single light windows on each face.

The tower is topped with a swept pyramidal slate roof, and the windows in the upper stage have a six-pane glazing pattern.

Local climate

Water Tower, Law 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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