Alma House, 17 Mill Street, Dalbeattie is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
Alma House, 17 Mill Street, Dalbeattie
- WRENN ID
- deep-jade-hemlock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Alma House, 17 Mill Street, Dalbeattie, DG5 4HE
- OS grid reference
- NX 834 613
- Coordinates
- 54.9328, -3.8209
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Alma House, located at 17 Mill Street in Dalbeattie, is a mid-19th century, three-bay house featuring a single-storey, one-bay block to the right and a three-storey Italianate tower above. The building is constructed from coursed snecked granite, with painted ashlar dressings and smooth rusticated quoins.
The central entrance is framed by an architrave with moulded consoles that support a pediment. The tripartite vestibule door includes acid-etched glass, while all windows have raised margins, with consoled and corniced designs at the ground level. The windows are single light with aluminium framed two-pane glazing.
To the right, a slender three-storey tower rises from a wider single-storey bay at ground level. This tower features round-arched windows on the second floor and bipartite windows on the third floor. The building has plain eaves and piended slate roofs, with the tower showcasing bracketed eaves and a finial.
The rear elevation is a three-bay, two-storey structure made of roughly coursed granite, with a canted window on the left side at ground level only. It also has tall corniced stacks and piended slate roofs.
The property is enclosed by a low granite boundary wall that includes a pair of tall square granite gatepiers topped with ball finials, along with good cast-iron gates.
Local climate
Alma House, 17 Mill Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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