Albert Club, 61 Irish Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
Albert Club, 61 Irish Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- stark-wall-cobweb
- 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
- Villa
- Address
- Albert Club, 61 Irish Street, Dumfries, DG1 2PJ
- OS grid reference
- NX 971 758
- Coordinates
- 55.06688, -3.61134
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Albert Club, located at 61 Irish Street in Dumfries, is a Greek Revival villa built in 1828. It has a rectangular plan with two storeys and an attic over a basement, featuring nearly identical three-bay east and west elevations, each with a central Greek Doric porch. The exterior is finished in polished red ashlar stone, which was cleaned in 1985, and includes architraves.
The building has corniced ground floor windows, which are consoled on the west side. There is a base course and a string course at the first floor cill level. The east side has a railed basement area, while the west side features a flight of steps leading to the door. A continuous main cornice runs along the top, and there are modern dormers and two pairs of symmetrically placed stacks. The roof is piended and platformed, covered with slate and lead.
There is a single-storey, single-bay addition on the south flank that faces west. This addition is recessed and continues the architectural details of the main house, with a flat roof concealed by a parapet and a modern fire escape on the east side.
Inside, the interior has been substantially altered, but some cornice details remain.
Local climate
Albert Club, 61 Irish 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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