24-36 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Department store. 1 related planning application.

24-36 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
small-alcove-dock
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
Department store
Address
24-36 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries, DG1 2AN
OS grid reference
NX 969 761
Coordinates
55.06938, -3.6154
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

24-36 Buccleuch Street in Dumfries is a department store built in 1897 by James Barbour. It features a free Renaissance style with a long, symmetrical façade. The building is mainly two storeys high, with a two-bay centre and single outer bays rising to three storeys. The design includes pedimented sections and canted first-floor windows, along with paired second-floor windows that have arched heads. The exterior is constructed from bull-faced red ashlar, accented with polished dressings on sculptured friezes and tympana. The wide central entrance is topped by a modern canopy, while other ground floor openings are large, square, and glazed, separated by plain piers. The upper windows are sash style, and there are wide dormers in the intermediate bays, which are set behind wall-head balustrades. The roofs are slated.

Local climate

24-36 Buccleuch Street, 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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