Dumfries County Buildings, 113 English Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. County buildings.
Dumfries County Buildings, 113 English Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- long-stronghold-claret
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1987
- Type
- County buildings
- Address
- Dumfries County Buildings, 113 English Street, Dumfries, DG1 2HS
- OS grid reference
- NX 975 762
- Coordinates
- 55.06975, -3.60604
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dumfries County Buildings, located at 113 English Street in Dumfries, were designed by Peddie and Forbes Smith and constructed between 1912 and 1914. This large and symmetrical U-plan building is an example of Edwardian Renaissance architecture. It features red ashlar stone, which is channelled at the ground level.
The central range of the building has a prominent raised centerpiece that includes a consoled and pedimented doorpiece. Above this, there is an arched three-light window with Doric-columned mullions, flanked by channelled pilaster strips. The wings of the building are five bays deep and echo the design of the central pavilion, though they do not have doors. The structure is topped with balustraded wall-head parapets and first-floor aprons, and it has piended and plaformed roofs, with attic windows concealed by the parapets. The windows are small-paned sashes.
At the rear of the building, there is a council chamber that features pedimented doorpieces and columned screens.
Local climate
Dumfries County Buildings, 113 English 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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