48-50 English Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. Public house.
48-50 English Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- unlit-moat-rush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1987
- Type
- Public house
- OS grid reference
- NX 973 760
- Coordinates
- 55.06865, -3.6087
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
48-50 English Street in Dumfries is a building dated 1806, featuring three storeys and four bays. The ground floor is occupied by a public house that was altered in 1985. The exterior is made of painted droved ashlar with margins. The public house has slim shafts topped with foliated capitals, pilasters, and an entablature that continues over the pedestrian passage on the left. There are string courses at both cill levels, and the building has sash windows, some of which have a 12-pane glazing pattern. It has end stacks and has been re-roofed with concrete tiles.
Local climate
48-50 English 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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