117 High Street, Dumfries is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
117 High Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- south-frieze-thunder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 117 High Street, Dumfries, DG1 2QT
- OS grid reference
- NX 972 760
- Coordinates
- 55.06868, -3.6109
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building at 117 High Street in Dumfries dates from the later 19th century and consists of three storeys with three narrow bays. The inner bay is set forward at the first floor and features a gabled section above the wall-head, which includes an attic oculus. This section is supported by corbelled shafts on either side of the inner first floor window. The exterior is made of red ashlar and includes gothic hood-moulds, with basket-arched single outer windows and bipartite inner windows, all fitted with plate glass sashes. The ground floor is occupied by a modern shop. The first floor windows are aproned, and there are string courses at the cill levels, decorative eaves, skews, and end stacks. The roof is covered with slate.
Local climate
117 High 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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