Bandstand, Dock Park, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. Bandstand. 2 related planning applications.

Bandstand, Dock Park, Dumfries

WRENN ID
old-belfry-vale
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 August 1987
Type
Bandstand
OS grid reference
NX 975 753
Coordinates
55.06242, -3.60612
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The bandstand in Dock Park, Dumfries, was built in 1898 by Walter MacFarlane and Co. It is an octagonal structure primarily made of cast iron, set on a red ashlar platform base. The bandstand features a facetted low-pitch roof covered in copper, adorned with decorative cresting and a valance, which includes the burgh arms at the east and renewed platform steps. The roof is supported by eight slender columns that have foliated capitals and lyre ornamentation in the spandrels. The underside of the roof and the platform deck are made of timber, and there is a renewed wrought iron balustrade and gate.

Local climate

Bandstand, Dock Park, 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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