Mount St Michael's, St Joseph's R.C. College, Craigs Road, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. College. 2 related planning applications.
Mount St Michael's, St Joseph's R.C. College, Craigs Road, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- dark-soffit-thrush
- 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
- College
- OS grid reference
- NX 979 754
- Coordinates
- 55.06342, -3.59932
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mount St Michael's, located at St Joseph's R.C. College on Craigs Road in Dumfries, is a Neo-Tudor villa designed by Walter Newall around 1820, with later additions. The building features a single-storey, L-plan service wing at the north, constructed in two phases and includes a basement. It is built from rubble with ashlar dressings, chamfered reveals, and shaped skews, with some windows having hood moulds; all windows are painted. The roofs are covered with slate.
The original house has five bays on the northwest (entrance) side and three bays on the southeast side, each with an advanced central gable. The northwest gable includes a porch with a Tudor-arched door and engaged octagonal shafts at the corners that rise to support dummy flues. The southwest end features a similarly treated gabled bay with a canted window. There is a string course at the cill level. The sash windows, mostly with 12-pane glazing, add to the character of the building. The L-plan wing has gabled dormer heads at ground level and bipartite windows, with three small basement lights facing southeast; the northwest return is constructed of brick.
Local climate
Mount St Michael's, St Joseph's R.C. College, Craigs Road, 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 — 2 applications
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