Town Hall, High Street, Langholm is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Town house. 4 related planning applications.
Town Hall, High Street, Langholm
- WRENN ID
- crooked-parapet-root
- 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 house
- OS grid reference
- NY 364 844
- Coordinates
- 55.15058, -2.9983
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Town Hall in Langholm, built between 1811 and 1813, is a two-storey building designed, likely by architect William Elliot. It features classical details and has a central tower on its three-bay main elevation facing the Market Square. The exterior is constructed of stugged ashlar with polished dressings and rusticated quoins.
The tower rises in three diminishing stages above the main eaves level. It has a door set in cavetto reveals, with a later 19th-century cast-iron lamp bracket above. The tower includes round-arched openings with imposts and keyblocks, pilasters at the angles on the second stage, and a fourth stage that houses a clock and belfry topped with an upswept bell-cast stone roof and weathervane.
The main body of the town house has a rectangular plan, featuring square-headed openings with sash windows that have a four-pane glazing pattern. There is a band course between the floors, a cornice, and a blocking course, all beneath a piended slate roof. The building has two-bay flanks, with a library adjoining to the southeast. The interior has been altered.
Local climate
Town Hall, High Street, Langholm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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
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