Dumfries Youth Club, 29 Irish Street, Dumfries

Dumfries Youth Club is an earlier 18th century Baroque two-storey, five-bay town house located at 29 Irish Street, Dumfries. The building features piended shallow-recessed flanking bays that have simpler detailing but appear to be original. It has a raised basement and an attic facing the Whitesands, along with minor low additions. The house is set back from Irish Street behind a high garden wall and was renovated by J M Bowie in 1923.

Constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, the building includes lugged and keystoned architraves and rusticated quoins, with most of the structure painted except for the west elevation. The central rusticated doorway on this elevation has an ashlar shallow-raised panel above that is linked to the window cill above. The first-floor windows are roughly square and feature bracketed cills, with lintels that connect to an eaves band. The small-paned sash windows display a vertical glazing pattern. The building has a main cornice, skews, corniced brick end stacks, and a slightly bell-cast slated roof.

To the right, there is a low addition linked to a recessed bay, built of painted droved ashlar and featuring a bowed south-facing bay. The west elevation has a rubble-built basement that contains a single long barrel-vaulted room, along with an early steep-gabled central porch, possibly by Bowie in 1923, made of red ashlar and featuring a stair window above between the floors. The windows on this elevation are plain margined, and there are two bipartite dormers.

Inside, some good fielded panelling survives, along with a timber stair and cornice plasterwork. To the west, there is a courtyard flanked by two low outbuildings and a screen wall with a central gate leading to the Whitesands, which is adorned with corniced square piers topped with pyramidal caps.