12 Castle 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. 2 related planning applications.

12 Castle Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
fading-string-bone
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
55.07038, -3.61294
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

12 Castle Street in Dumfries is an early 19th-century building that stands three storeys high and features three bays. The ground floor has a neo-Edwardian shop front, which was added around 1983, and includes a possibly re-used apothecary's sign. The exterior is finished in painted droved ashlar with projecting cills. The building has sash windows that display a 12-pane glazing pattern, along with a cornice and a blocking course. There is a dormer with casements, and the straight skews are raised over the south gable, which is faced with bull-faced red ashlar, indicating where a taller building once adjoined.

Local climate

12 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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