Main Building, Dollar Academy is a Grade A listed building in the Clackmannanshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1960. Academy. 1 related planning application.

Main Building, Dollar Academy

WRENN ID
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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Clackmannanshire
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 June 1960
Type
Academy
OS grid reference
NS 961 981
Coordinates
56.16503, -3.67433
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Main Building of Dollar Academy was designed by W H Playfair and constructed between 1818 and 1820. It is a classical T-plan structure made of ashlar stone, featuring two storeys and a west-facing frontage with 17 windows. The building has a tetrastyle portico at each end and a hexastyle portico in the center. The interior has been completely renovated following fire damage, and there have been alterations made to the rear part of the building.

Local climate

Main Building, Dollar Academy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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