26 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. House. 2 related planning applications.
26 Castle Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-pilaster-dale
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- 26 Castle Street, Dumfries, DG1 1DU
- OS grid reference
- NX 970 763
- Coordinates
- 55.07133, -3.61417
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
26 Castle Street in Dumfries is a terraced building likely designed by Robert Burn, constructed between 1806 and 1819. The structure consists of three houses: No 30 has five bays with a central door, while Nos 26 and 28 each have three bays with the door on the left. The buildings are two storeys high with attics and feature cast-iron-railed basements. They are built from droved ashlar and include pilastered doorcases, round-arched doorways, and panelled doors with decorative fanlights. The small-paned sash windows are complemented by a string course at ground floor cill level, a band course between the floors, a cornice, a blocking course, straight skews, and end stacks, all topped with a slate roof. Nos 26 and 28 have first floor windows with attractive cast-iron balconies and cills that are lowered to the level of the band course, while No 30 features aproned first floor windows and a pedimented northern gable. The interiors also showcase some notable craftsmanship.
Local climate
26 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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