Bandstand, Colliston Park, Dalbeattie is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 May 1981. Bandstand.

Bandstand, Colliston Park, Dalbeattie

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 May 1981
Type
Bandstand
OS grid reference
NX 834 615
Coordinates
54.93506, -3.81996
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The bandstand in Colliston Park, Dalbeattie, dates from around 1900 and is an octagonal pavilion made of cast iron, manufactured at the Lion foundry. It features slender cast-iron composite columns that support a depressed-arch latticework screen. The bandstand has an overhanging octagonal roof with a central facetted hemispherical dome, and spike finials at the ridges and the apex of the dome. It stands on an octagonal concrete base.

Local climate

Bandstand, Colliston Park, Dalbeattie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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 0.3°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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