7 Assembly Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Corner tenement. 1 related planning application.

7 Assembly Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
waning-grate-smoke
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
Corner tenement
Address
7 Assembly Street, Dumfries, DG1 2RU
OS grid reference
NX 972 759
Coordinates
55.06718, -3.61129
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7 Assembly Street in Dumfries is an earlier 19th century late Georgian corner tenement. It stands three storeys high over a railed basement, featuring five bays on Irish Street (with the left bay being broader) and three bays on Assembly Street. The building is constructed of droved red ashlar, with band courses that divide the floors. It has recessed panelled doors with pilastered jambs and decorative fanlights; there are two doors located in the second and fourth bays on Irish Street, a central door on Assembly Street, and bipartite windows in the right bay. The property has plate glass sash windows throughout, and the original stack has been removed. The roof is piended and covered with slate.

Local climate

7 Assembly 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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