St Michael's Manse, Bankend Road, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Manse.

St Michael's Manse, Bankend Road, Dumfries

WRENN ID
drifting-vault-furze
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
Manse
OS grid reference
NX 978 751
Coordinates
55.06045, -3.6014
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Michael's Manse, located on Bankend Road in Dumfries, is a two-storey, three-bay manse designed by architect J Halliday and dated 1896. The building features Renaissance ornamentation and is constructed from red ashlar stone with rusticated angles, while the first floor is quoined. A balustraded square-columned Ionic porch with a round-arched doorway is set in a shallow advanced pilastered and pedimented inner bay. The ground floor has canted windows with channelled angles and architraved lights, while the first floor features bipartite windows. Additional architectural details include a string course between the floors, an eaves course, a bracketted cornice, end stacks, and a piended slate roof. The manse has two-bay flanks and a rear wing.

Local climate

St Michael's Manse, Bankend Road, 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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