197 High Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Commercial building.

197 High Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
plain-tower-hawk
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
Commercial building
OS grid reference
NX 971 762
Coordinates
55.06978, -3.61219
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

197 High Street in Dumfries is a building dated 1882, designed in the Free Renaissance style. It stands three storeys tall, featuring two bays facing both High Street and Friars Vennel, with both elevations similarly detailed. The Friars Vennel side has a central wall-head stack. At the ground level, there is a well-designed glazed shop front, with a cornice above that is raised at the curved corner. The building is constructed of red ashlar and includes narrow pilaster strips, with horizontal strings that divide the floors. The first floor has segmental-arched windows, while the second floor features round-arched windows that have scrolled and pedimented heads above the main eaves level. The casement windows each include a timber mullion and transom. The building has a low parapet, corniced stacks, and a concealed roof.

Local climate

197 High 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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