Parish Church Hall And Burial-Ground, Bridge Street, Stranraer is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Church hall.

Parish Church Hall And Burial-Ground, Bridge Street, Stranraer

WRENN ID
quartered-balcony-pearl
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
Church hall
OS grid reference
NX 060 607
Coordinates
54.90375, -5.02705
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Parish Church Hall and Burial-Ground on Bridge Street in Stranraer was built in 1821. It is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular church hall with a small rectangular single-storey wing on the southeast side. The entrance elevation features painted render, while the sides are finished in painted rubble. Architectural details include a base course, lintel course, cornice, and quoin strips. The openings have moulded surrounds, with decorative consoled cornices on the ground floor and moulded brackets on the upper openings.

On the north (entrance) elevation, there is a central block with a pedimented entrance doorpiece that has a bracketed cornice, a two-leaf timber door, and a letterbox fanlight. A single window is aligned above on the first floor, with additional single windows on both floors of the flanking bays.

The east side elevation has three single windows on both the ground and first floors, while the west side elevation features three single windows on the ground floor, a timber door on the outer right, and two bipartite windows on the first floor. The building has a variety of glazing patterns, a piend roof, a coped stack, and a circular can.

Inside, there is a decorative stained glass screen in the entrance porch, and a timber staircase that leads to a gallery on the first floor, which is now blocked and tiled. The ground floor has a timber floor and dado panelling, plasterwork on the ceiling, and deep window reveals. A door on the southeast side leads to the single-storey addition and the graveyard.

The graveyard is a small area located to the east of the church hall. The boundary walls consist of coped brick walls on the outer left and painted rubble walls on the outer right.

Local climate

Parish Church Hall And Burial-Ground, Bridge Street, Stranraer sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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