Essex Park, Kellwood Place, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. Villa.

Essex Park, Kellwood Place, Dumfries

WRENN ID
roaming-pilaster-summer
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 August 1987
Type
Villa
OS grid reference
NX 988 758
Coordinates
55.06721, -3.58495
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Essex Park is a villa built between 1830 and 1840, featuring two storeys and three bays, along with a full-height rear wing. It was renovated around 1984. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar, with contrasting dressings and rusticated quoins. The central entrance has a pilastered doorcase with a round-headed doorway, a panelled door, and a fanlight above. The villa has modern plate glass sash windows and includes a string course at the first-floor cill level, an eaves and lintel band, a mutule cornice, and end stacks. The roof is piended and currently covered with concrete tiles. There is a low garden wall that includes two pairs of square, rusticated ashlar gatepiers.

Local climate

Essex Park, Kellwood Place, 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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