Brigend Theatre, Market Square is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 2009. Theatre, former church.

Brigend Theatre, Market Square

WRENN ID
weathered-hall-clover
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 2009
Type
Theatre, former church
OS grid reference
NX 967 760
Coordinates
55.06788, -3.61813
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Brigend Theatre is a small, single-storey building that was originally an Episcopal church, constructed in 1891. It was converted into a theatre in the 1970s. The theatre features a distinctive rounded apse at the south and a steeply pitched roof, and it is located on a sloping site. The exterior is made of coursed, hammer-dressed red sandstone with smooth margins, and it has an eaves cornice. There are round-arched window openings and a pair of round-arched door openings, along with a lower entrance wing to the northeast.

The windows are predominantly plate-glass timber fixed windows, with some rectangular ones. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and has decorative ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present, along with raised skews and skewputts on the entrance wing.

Inside, as seen in 2009, the building has been converted into a theatre. It features a fine, open timber roof that springs from timber corbels, a simple raised stage, and dado height timber boarding.

Local climate

Brigend Theatre, Market Square 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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