Tolbooth, High Street, New Galloway is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Town hall. 6 related planning applications.
Tolbooth, High Street, New Galloway
- WRENN ID
- vast-lancet-ridge
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Tolbooth, High Street, New Galloway, DG7 3RL
- OS grid reference
- NX 634 775
- Coordinates
- 55.07317, -4.14077
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Tolbooth on High Street in New Galloway was rebuilt in 1875, likely incorporating elements from an earlier 19th century building. It is a two-storey, six-bay structure featuring a three-stage tower at the northeast corner.
The walls are smooth rendered and lined to resemble ashlar, with polished raised margins and a basecourse. At the base of the tower, there is a round-arched hood-moulded doorway with a heraldic panel above it. All ground floor windows are four-pane sashes, while the first-floor windows are round-arched, with five-pane top sashes and four-pane lower sashes. The building has a bracketed gutter and slate roofs. The tower includes a square-headed window on the second stage and clock faces on the third stage. Pairs of brackets support the cornice, with finials at the angles. The steeply pitched French-style slate roof features timber louvered lucarnes.
A panel on the west wall states, "Rebuilt and enlarged 1875." There is also a two-bay wing extending to the East Port.
Local climate
Tolbooth, High Street, New Galloway sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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