Police Station, East Morton Street, Thornhill is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.
Police Station, East Morton Street, Thornhill
- WRENN ID
- dusted-hinge-vale
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- OS grid reference
- NX 880 956
- Coordinates
- 55.24265, -3.76268
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Police House on East Morton Street in Thornhill, designed by Barbour and Bowie of Dumfries, was built in 1909. This building is a Scots Baronial police station with an adjoining house, constructed entirely of bullfaced red ashlar with polished dressings and crow-stepped gables.
The house is two storeys tall and has three bays, featuring a central porch with a curved gable. The outer first-floor windows have pedimented dormer heads, while the other windows are bipartite. The inner window has a swept roof, and there are coped end stacks along with a rear wing.
The police station resembles a two-storey "tower house" with a splayed base. It has a corbelled and crenellated parapet that encloses the gable. The lower window is barred, and the upper windows are segmental-arched. There is a linking bay with a round-arched door set in a lean-to porch, and low wings flank the building and extend to the rear. The roofs are covered with slate. A coped bullfaced ashlar wall runs along the roadside, sweeping down and railed towards the square, with pyramid-capped gatepiers marking the entrance.
Local climate
Police Station, East Morton Street, Thornhill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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