Town Hall And Custom House, 5-9 St Andrew Street, Castle Douglas is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990. Town hall, customs house.
Town Hall And Custom House, 5-9 St Andrew Street, Castle Douglas
- WRENN ID
- rusted-foundation-umber
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1990
- Type
- Town hall, customs house
- OS grid reference
- NX 762 622
- Coordinates
- 54.93961, -3.93257
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Town Hall and Custom House, located at 5-9 St Andrew Street in Castle Douglas, was built in 1862 and features an asymmetrical Italianate design. The building is constructed of polished ashlar stone with raised angle margins and a basecourse, and it stands two stories tall.
All the windows are round-arched lancets, which have pilastered reveals, keystoned archivolts, and bracketed cills. On the left side, there is a recessed gabled bay that contains a tall three-light window. The central section features a pilastered doorpiece with a decorative cartouche above and a bipartite light on the first floor.
To the right, there is a symmetrical three-bay section, with advanced outer bays that have single lancets, while the inner bay includes a three-light window. The building is topped with an eaves cornice and a blocking course, with a block pediment over the center that is inscribed with "Town Hall, 1862." The roof is slate and has a piended design over the hall.
Local climate
Town Hall And Custom House, 5-9 St Andrew Street, Castle Douglas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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