Bandstand, Stair Park, London Road, Stranraer is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Bandstand.
Bandstand, Stair Park, London Road, Stranraer
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-roof-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1998
- Type
- Bandstand
- OS grid reference
- NX 069 606
- Coordinates
- 54.90338, -5.01236
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The bandstand in Stair Park, London Road, Stranraer, was designed by Walter MacFarlane and Co from the Saracen Foundry in Glasgow and completed in 1911. It features an ornate octagonal plan set on a corniced base, with timber steps leading up to the north. The structure is supported by cast iron columns topped with Corinthianesque capitals, which hold segmentally arched cast-iron spandrels adorned with intricate traceried open work decoration. A moulded cornice, with some remnants of scallop-work, encircles the bandstand. An elaborate heraldic crest is incorporated into the ironwork at the entrance facing Stair Park to the north. Inside, the roof is lined with timber boarding and features a central circular pendant. The exterior is topped with a tall cast- and wrought-iron crown finial, and the bandstand is surrounded by cast-iron railings.
Local climate
Bandstand, Stair Park, London Road, Stranraer sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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