Annan Academy, Station Road, Annan is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. School. 1 related planning application.
Annan Academy, Station Road, Annan
- WRENN ID
- secret-rotunda-ochre
- 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
- School
- OS grid reference
- NY 194 663
- Coordinates
- 54.98485, -3.25997
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Annan Academy, designed by Frank C Carruthers of Dumfries and Lockerbie around 1896, is a single-storey school building with attics, featuring a central tower. It showcases a Free Renaissance style and is constructed from bull-faced red ashlar with polished dressings. The windows are mostly mullioned and transomed, adorned with ornamental heads or pediments, and exhibit a variety of glazing patterns, including some multi-paned upper sashes. The building has slate roofs.
The long symmetrical west elevation is divided into three three-bay ranges. The outer ranges are L-shaped with porches in the re-entrant angles, while the inner range is shallowly recessed and features a pierced parapet, a main door, and canted windows. The tower and attic storey are set back and have high roofs behind. The square tower has engaged angle shafts that rise above the parapet into ogee-roofed turrets. Below the cornice, there are arcaded belfry openings, and the tower is topped with a slated and leaded ogee-roofed cupola.
At the rear, there is a small detached octagonal structure with a wide round-arched doorway, a facetted roof, and a louvred apex ventilator capped with lead.
Local climate
Annan Academy, Station Road, Annan sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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