168-170 Irish Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Commercial. 2 related planning applications.
168-170 Irish Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- noble-pediment-thistle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- Type
- Commercial
- OS grid reference
- NX 970 762
- Coordinates
- 55.06959, -3.6133
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
168-170 Irish Street in Dumfries is a building dating from around 1800. It has three storeys and features nine bays, with three bays closest to the north. The adjacent building at No. 172 is from the early 19th century and has a single bay with a piended narrow south end that connects to Greyfriars Street. The ground floor of the building contains shops, which are covered by a continuous fascia. The structure is built from rubble and painted with contrasting ashlar margins. It has sash windows throughout; No. 172 has a four-pane glazing pattern, while the other windows have a twelve-pane glazing pattern, with two blind bays. The first floor features a tripartite window in the south end wall with blind outer lights. Additional architectural details include an eaves and lintel band, a cornice, end stacks, and a slate roof.
Local climate
168-170 Irish 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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