136 Queensberry Street, Dumfries is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981.
136 Queensberry Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- grey-lime-juniper
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- OS grid reference
- NX 972 763
- Coordinates
- 55.07078, -3.61142
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 142 Queensberry Street in Dumfries, was constructed in 1873 and is a three-storey tenement that follows the curve of the street. The ground floor features shops, and the building has seven bays. The second and fifth bays are slightly advanced and gabled, while the seventh bay is narrower, featuring one less window. The exterior is finished in polished red ashlar.
On the first floor, the windows are aproned, segmental-arched bipartites with columned mullions, all set back in shallow square panels. The third floor has tripartite windows. Horizontal strings separate the floors, and there are blocked eaves. The building has corniced stacks located at or below the apex of the roof, which is slated.
Local climate
136 Queensberry 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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