27-29 Lover's Walk, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Villa. 1 related planning application.
27-29 Lover's Walk, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- scattered-gravel-onyx
- 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
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NX 974 765
- Coordinates
- 55.07245, -3.60713
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
27-29 Lover's Walk is a mid-19th century double villa that stands two storeys high and features four bays. The building has a shallow advanced two-bay centre with a pediment, which is accentuated by a pilastered double porch that includes bipartite windows and side entrances. The exterior is made of red ashlar, with ground floor windows that have cornices and architraves. There is a cill band at the first floor level.
The house on the left, No 27, has sash windows with small-paned glazing and includes a dormer. Architectural details include an eaves course, cornice, blocking course, straight skews, end stacks, and a single axial flue, all topped by a slate roof. The villa is set behind a rubble-built garden wall that is capped with ashlar and features square gatepiers with projecting caps.
Local climate
27-29 Lover's Walk, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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