80-82 Friars Vennel, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Corner tenement. 4 related planning applications.

80-82 Friars Vennel, Dumfries

WRENN ID
dim-merlon-brook
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
Corner tenement
OS grid reference
NX 970 761
Coordinates
55.06937, -3.61305
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

80-82 Friars Vennel is a three-storey corner tenement building dating from around 1800, which includes a shop on the ground floor. The building features a chamfered corner and an ogee corbel that transitions to a square shape at the first floor. It has four bays facing Friars Vennel and three bays on Irish Street. The shop windows and doors, as well as the fascia on Friars Vennel, are modern. The exterior is finished in painted droved ashlar with margins. There are blind inner windows on Irish Street and a single blind window on Friars Vennel. The glazing is mostly modern on the first floor, while the second floor has sash windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The building has an eaves and lintel band and is topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

80-82 Friars Vennel, 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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