86-88 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. Office building. 1 related planning application.

86-88 Irish Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
tattered-parapet-umber
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
Office building
Address
86-88 Irish Street, Dumfries, DG1 2PB
OS grid reference
NX 972 760
Coordinates
55.06785, -3.61132
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

86-88 Irish Street in Dumfries is an Italianate office building dating from around 1860. It stands three storeys tall and features six bays, with the inner two bays being more prominent. The building has a double porch supported by square columns, which is adorned with balustrades and urn finials. The exterior is made of droved red ashlar stone, accented with polished dressings and architraves. The first-floor windows are topped with consoled pediments, while the ground floor windows have segmental heads. The third-floor windows feature lugged architraves. There are string courses at each cill level, a bracketed cornice, and chimney stacks at either end of the building. The roof is covered with slate.

Local climate

86-88 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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