71 Friars Vennel, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Commercial.
71 Friars Vennel, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- dusk-bonework-fern
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NX 970 761
- Coordinates
- 55.06935, -3.61349
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
71 Friars Vennel in Dumfries is an early 19th century building that stands three storeys tall and features a rounded corner. It has three bays facing Friars Vennel and a single bay on Irish Street, with an additional bay in the rounded corner that includes a door leading to a late 19th century public house. The building is constructed of droved red ashlar, with the lower two floors painted. There is a band course above the ground floor, and the public house windows have mostly been enlarged and corniced, while the second-floor windows on Irish Street retain their original sash windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The building has end and axial stacks, a slate roof, and the roof curves over the corner bay. A modern shop has been added at the lower level of the slope on Friars Vennel.
Local climate
71 Friars Vennel, 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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