152, 154 High Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Commercial.
152, 154 High Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- low-hinge-honey
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- Type
- Commercial
- OS grid reference
- NX 972 761
- Coordinates
- 55.06944, -3.61135
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
152 and 154 High Street in Dumfries is a mid-18th century three-storey building featuring a symmetrical six-bay elevation facing the street, which includes shops and architraved windows. The building has a pend that is off-centre and leads to the much-altered mid-18th century Hole I' The Wa' inn located at the rear.
The street elevation is constructed of painted ashlar and has tall, possibly enlarged, windows that are all plate glass sashes. Sculptured lions are positioned on the first-floor cills flanking the pend. The building has a cornice, with skewed gables, the northern one featuring kneelers, and end stacks. The steep-pitched slate roof adds to its character. To the south, there is a block that is recessed from the street line, with single windows in its gable.
Hole I' The Wa' is the earliest part of the building, consisting of two storeys made from whitewashed rubble with ashlar margins and a slate roof. It has two first-floor windows with deeply chamfered reveals facing the pend. There are modern additions, including a large extension to the east.
Local climate
152, 154 High Street, Dumfries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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