7 Church Place, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Commercial building.
7 Church Place, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- weathered-steel-rowan
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- Type
- Commercial building
- OS grid reference
- NX 971 762
- Coordinates
- 55.07008, -3.61191
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
7 Church Place in Dumfries is a building dated 1895, designed in the Flemish Renaissance style. It stands three storeys tall with attics and features a symmetrical angle frontage. The exterior is constructed of red ashlar and adorned with sculptured ornamentation.
On the ground floor, there are two wide shop windows with original woodwork, flanked by a central doorway framed by four pilasters with foliated capitals. This doorway is topped by an entablature that includes shop fascias and a segmental pediment, which is broken by a central cartouche above the doorway.
The first floor showcases an arcade of five semi-elliptical arches with keyblocks, which are glazed as triple light transomed windows. The second floor features a central corbelled oriel that rises into a three-tier central turret topped with a consoled copper cupola. The flanking second-floor windows are bipartite and supported by square baluster shafts, with a sculptured apron frieze beneath them.
Above, Flemish gables are present, each with two-light windows that have colonnettes, scroll supports, and low-rise scrolled pediments. The building is finished with corniced end stacks and a slate roof.
Local climate
7 Church 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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