Library, High Street, Langholm is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Library.
Library, High Street, Langholm
- WRENN ID
- riven-grate-lark
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Library
- OS grid reference
- NY 364 844
- Coordinates
- 55.15057, -2.99829
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a public library located on High Street in Langholm, constructed between 1875 and 1878, with a date of 1877 noted. It is a two-storey and attic neo-Jacobean structure that adjoins the southern rear wall of the Town House, featuring a garden to the south and a public road along both sides. The interior was completely rebuilt around 1980. The exterior is made of stugged ashlar with polished dressings.
The library has symmetrical elevations with buckle-quoined corners, primarily featuring cross-windows with plate glass. It is topped with leaded and ogee-domed turrets at the corners, and the wallhead gables include small windows, kneelers, and spike finials. The southern façade has a shallow advanced gabled center that contains the main entrance, which is flanked by round-headed panels, and features a corbelled rectangular oriel above.
The flank elevations consist of four bays (two on each side), and the west wall includes a large shop opening with an unusually long stone-lintelled span, which now serves as a tourist center. The building has band and string courses between the floors, an eaves band and cornice, and a wallhead balustrade at the southern end. The roofs are covered with slate.
Local climate
Library, High Street, Langholm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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