St Benedict's Presbytery, 29, 30 Maxwell Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. Residence.

St Benedict's Presbytery, 29, 30 Maxwell Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
scarred-tracery-nettle
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
Residence
OS grid reference
NX 965 757
Coordinates
55.06584, -3.62068
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Benedict's Presbytery is a late 19th century, two-storey residence that includes attics and a basement. The building is constructed of squared red rubble and features a symmetrical façade that is three windows wide. At the center, there is a pointed-arched doorway with railed steps and a simple cusped three-light fanlight above it. This doorway is flanked by cusped and transomed windows that have four lights, and there is a two-light cusped arched window above the door, which is also flanked by square-headed bipartite windows. The roof is gabled and covered with slate, featuring end stacks and two two-light dormers with half-timbered gablets.

Local climate

St Benedict's Presbytery, 29, 30 Maxwell 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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