St John's School, Rae Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. School. 3 related planning applications.
St John's School, Rae Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- long-merlon-brook
- 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
- School
- OS grid reference
- NX 973 763
- Coordinates
- 55.07086, -3.60877
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St John's School, dated 1885, is a building with Gothic detailing that is now used as offices. It stands two storeys high with a railed basement and features three bays with mullioned and transomed windows. The inner bay has a perpendicular traceried window on the ground floor, flanked by crenellated tall octagonal turrets, and there are outer buttresses. The building is constructed of bull-faced red ashlar with polished dressings. The outer ground floor windows have flat ogee heads, while the first floor windows are depressed-arched with shallow-gabled heads positioned above the main eaves level. A string course between the floors steps down as a hood-mould over the central window. The roof is slate, and there are low ranges at the rear.
Local climate
St John's School, Rae Street, 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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