47, 49 English Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.

47, 49 English Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
veiled-flagstone-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
Tenement
OS grid reference
NX 973 760
Coordinates
55.0687, -3.60895
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 47 and 49 English Street in Dumfries, dates from around 1800 and is a three-storey corner tenement with shops on the ground floor. The eastern gable facing Loreburn Street is blank. The upper floors are symmetrical, featuring five bays with a central pediment that supports a chimney stack, and an elliptical plaque in the tympanum. The exterior is finished in painted droved ashlar with raised margins around the windows. The sash windows include two bays on the right with a 12-pane glazing pattern, while the other windows have been reglazed with a 4-pane glazing pattern. There is an off-centre door leading to the upper flats and two pilastered shop fronts. The building also features an eaves and lintel band, a cornice, and a slate roof.

Local climate

47, 49 English 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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