Robert Burns House, 24 Burns Street, Dumfries is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 July 1961. House. 1 related planning application.

Robert Burns House, 24 Burns Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
fallow-paling-fern
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 July 1961
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 974 758
Coordinates
55.06609, -3.60802
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Robert Burns House, located at 24 Burns Street in Dumfries, was likely built in the third quarter of the 18th century. This is the house where Robert Burns lived from 1793 until his death in 1796. The house was renovated by M Purdon Smith in 1935 and features two storeys with a near-symmetrical design, consisting of three bays, a central door, and two ground floor windows in the left bay. The exterior is made of red sandstone rubble, with the render removed by Smith, and has ashlar margins; the south gable is now harled. There is an intermittent contrasting boulder rubble base course. The house has small-paned sash windows throughout, straight skews, end stacks, and a slate roof. The interior is plain, featuring stone stairs and simple chimney pieces.

Local climate

Robert Burns House, 24 Burns 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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