16 Castle Street, Dumfries is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 July 1961.
16 Castle Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- waning-tracery-vale
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1961
- OS grid reference
- NX 970 763
- Coordinates
- 55.07053, -3.61308
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
18 Castle Street in Dumfries is a terrace of houses built between 1806 and 1819, likely designed by Robert Burn. The terrace consists of two storeys with attics and cast-iron-railed basements. The exterior features fainted droved ashlar stone, pilastered doorpieces, round-arched doorways, and recessed panelled doors with fanlights, with original decorative fanlights found at Nos 16 and 22. Each house typically has three bays with the door on the left, except for No 24, which has five bays with a central door and aproned first-floor windows. Sash windows are present throughout, with few retaining the original 12-pane glazing pattern. The design includes band courses between floors, string dormers, straight skews, end stacks, and a slate roof.
The interior retains some notable features, including cornice plasterwork, chimney pieces, and cantilevered stairs with decorative balustrades. Some iron railings have been partly replaced, and there is a good overthrow at No 24.
Local climate
16 Castle 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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