17 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.

17 Castle Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
wild-wicket-spindle
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
Address
17 Castle Street, Dumfries, DG1 1DJ
OS grid reference
NX 970 762
Coordinates
55.07008, -3.61299
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

17 Castle Street in Dumfries is an early 19th century building that stands three storeys tall and features three bays. The ground floor has a "Thomsonesque" shop front, characterized by Ionic columns, coupled outer pilasters, and a cornice adorned with antefixae. The upper floors are finished in painted droved ashlar, with rusticated quoins and margins. Each floor has single sash windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The building also includes an eaves and lintel band, a cornice, straight skews, and a slate roof.

Local climate

17 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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