Warehouse To Rear, 48-50 Whitesands, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. 2 related planning applications.
Warehouse To Rear, 48-50 Whitesands, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- steep-lancet-dock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1987
- Address
- Warehouse To Rear, 48-50 Whitesands, Dumfries, DG1 2RS
- OS grid reference
- NX 970 760
- Coordinates
- 55.06835, -3.61296
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Market Office at 48-50 Whitesands in Dumfries dates from around 1900 and is a two-storey building with a symmetrical five-bay elevation facing Whitesands. To the northeast, there is a large, detached, rectangular three-storey warehouse block with seven bays. Both structures are constructed from stugged red ashlar with polished dressings and feature piended roofs covered with graded slates.
The office has round-headed openings on the ground floor and square-headed windows on the first floor. The central doorway, which has a consoled cornice, is flanked by outer bays that are now blocked, while the central bay features a pediment. The intermediate bays contain paired ground floor windows and bipartite first floor windows. All windows are plate glass sashes. The building has blocked eaves, a corniced end stack, and ornamental ridging tiles.
The warehouse has a wide entrance in the two-bay southwest end wall, and all windows are small-paned with projecting cills and louvred upper lights.
Local climate
Warehouse To Rear, 48-50 Whitesands, 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
- 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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