Job Centre, 20 Victoria Street, Newton Stewart is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1993. Office block. 1 related planning application.

Job Centre, 20 Victoria Street, Newton Stewart

WRENN ID
lapsed-jamb-smoke
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 March 1993
Type
Office block
OS grid reference
NX 411 654
Coordinates
54.9581, -4.48295
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Job Centre at 20 Victoria Street in Newton Stewart is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey office building featuring a late 19th-century mansard and attic addition. The structure is constructed of whinstone rubble, with the ground floor facing the street in bull-faced granite. The first floor is made of granite blocks with whinstone pinning, and it includes granite quoins, margins, a cill course, a cornice, and a blocking course.

On the street elevation, there is a door located in the off-centre bay to the left, which has a corniced surround. Flanking windows are positioned to the right and left, with an additional window inserted between the bays on the right. The first floor has regular fenestration. The building features three flat-roofed dormers at both the front and rear.

There is a blank gable adjacent to the pend on the south side. The ground floor has modern timber doors and windows, while the first floor contains plate glass sash and case windows, along with 4-pane glazing in the dormers. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the mansard skews have sandstone ashlar coping with ball finials. The building also retains decorative lead rainwater goods.

Local climate

Job Centre, 20 Victoria Street, Newton Stewart sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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