North Lodge, former Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981.
North Lodge, former Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary
- WRENN ID
- roaming-tin-tallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- OS grid reference
- NX 976 754
- Coordinates
- 55.06279, -3.60399
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The boundary wall and terrace are part of the former Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, attributed to John Starforth of Edinburgh and built between 1869 and 1873. The single-storey, three-bay hospital lodge building is constructed of red sandstone and features segmental-arched openings with a central door at the northern entrance to the former hospital site. It has bipartite timber windows and a tall, corniced and bracketed single ashlar stack at the rear, topped with a piended and slated roof. The interior of the lodge was not seen in 2014.
The boundary wall, made of coursed and squared red sandstone, runs along Nithbank Road to the north and south of the hospital site.
The terrace, located to the east of the boundary wall and directly in front of the main block, is also made of red sandstone. It features decorative quatrefoil-shaped pierced balustrading and includes a central flight of steps leading up to the entrance of the main block. The steps to the roadside may have been added later.
Local climate
North Lodge, former Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary 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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