88-90 High Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.

88-90 High Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
deep-dormer-flax
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
Tenement
Address
88-90 High Street, Dumfries, DG1 2BJ
OS grid reference
NX 972 760
Coordinates
55.06818, -3.60992
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 88-90 High Street in Dumfries, dates from around 1800 and is a three-storey corner tenement featuring shops on the ground floor. It has three bays facing English Street and one wide bay at the canted angle, along with eight bays along High Street. The exterior is finished in painted droved ashlar and has a simple modillioned cornice. The corner and window margins along High Street are raised. There is a plain first-floor Venetian window at the canted angle, which includes blind side lights and a tympanum. The shop fronts are modern, while the windows above are mostly sash windows. The building has end stacks and a piended slate roof.

Local climate

88-90 High Street, 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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