Annan Town Hall is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Town hall. 3 related planning applications.
Annan Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- turning-plinth-nettle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Town hall
- OS grid reference
- NY 191 665
- Coordinates
- 54.98729, -3.26457
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Annan Town Hall, designed by architect R Smith of Glasgow, was built in 1875. This two-storey town house features a prominent four-stage tower at the center of the main eastern elevation. The building showcases Scots Baronial detailing, including bartizans, roll-moulding, and crow-stepped gables, constructed from red ashlar stone.
The tower has a cable-moulded round-arched wide doorway, with a balustraded balcony above and an empty base and canopy intended for sculpture. The bartizans are corbelled and topped with conical roofs, while the top stage has louvred openings. Each face of the first stage of the slated and leaded spire features a clock. On either side of the tower, there are two bays with cross-windows. The exterior is accented with horizontal string courses, louvred dormer-shaped ventilators, and corniced end stacks, all beneath a slate roof. A large first-floor window on the south gable has a hoodmould and a Jacobean detailed head. A three-bay rear wing extends to the west, and there is a modern addition to the north gable. Free-standing lamps flank the doorway, supported by cast-iron brackets on ashlar bases.
Inside, there have been modern alterations, but the hall on the first floor runs the full length of the building.
Local climate
Annan Town Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Old Parish Church, High Street Graveyard, Annan
- Stable Court, Blue Bell Inn, 2 -10 High Street, Annan
- Bridge House, 9 High Street, Annan
- Bridge House, 7 High Street, Annan
- Bridge House, 5 High Street, Annan
- Bridge Of Annan, Annan
- 2 Carlyle's Place, Annan
- 18 Port Street
- 64 High Street, Annan
- 4, 6 Carlyle's Place, Annan