Annan Station is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 July 1986. Railway station, signal box. 3 related planning applications.

Annan Station

WRENN ID
final-floor-moth
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 July 1986
Type
Railway station, signal box
OS grid reference
NY 193 661
Coordinates
54.98349, -3.26228
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Annan Station, designed by William Fairburn for James Miller, opened in 1848. It is a broad-eaved Italianate station that includes a station master's house. The building is two storeys tall and has a roughly T-shaped plan, with the main roof sweeping over the house entrance bay in the re-entrant angle. There is a gabled low bay alongside and a columned open porch in the west re-entrant angle. A long single-storey red brick addition, built around 1900, extends to the west and features a glazed roof.

The exterior is constructed of stugged red ashlar with polished dressings, and it includes moulded architraves and a continuous corbel table that acts as hood-moulds over the first-floor windows. There is a canted ground floor window in the north gable, and the stacks have bracketed cornices. The roofs are covered with slate. A long four-bay glass-roofed canopy extends to the platform, supported by single low cast-iron columns with foliated capitals below the apex, which are connected to gutters for rainwater drainage. Low ranges adjoin the east gable.

The signal box, built in 1877 for the Great Scottish and Western Railway, is a tall, rectangular-plan structure with a brick plinth, horizontal timber weather-boarding, and a piended slate roof. It features glazing on the signal cabin returns at the corner angles of the side elevations, separated by a weatherboarded section facing the track. The signal box was reconfigured in 1973 to include a 20 lever Stevens and Sons/Caledonian frame.

Local climate

Annan Station 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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