Ewart Library, Catherine Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Library. 1 related planning application.
Ewart Library, Catherine Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- quartered-mortar-rye
- 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
- Library
- OS grid reference
- NX 973 764
- Coordinates
- 55.07142, -3.6095
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Ewart Library, located on Catherine Street in Dumfries, was designed by Alan B Crombie and built between 1903 and 1904 in the Edwardian Renaissance style. This tall, two-storey library stands freestanding within a garden area.
The library features a symmetrical main frontage made of red ashlar stone, with a channelled ground floor and an Ionic order above. The facade has seven bays, five of which are framed by polished granite columns that support arched windows on the first floor. The broad end bays are adorned with Venetian windows set in coupled pilasters, topped with a pediment. The ground floor windows are transomed, and the end bays also feature mullions. The central entrance is an arched doorpiece framed by banded Roman Doric pilasters, with figures above and a central aedicular inscription panel in between. The slate roof is concealed by a parapet.
The single bay return elevations also include columns or pilasters and pediments that frame the first floor windows. Inside, there is a central staircase with a wrought-iron balustrade and a leaded glass stair window.
Local climate
Ewart Library, Catherine 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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