Bank, 52, 54 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 January 1979. Bank.
Bank, 52, 54 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- young-finial-amber
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1979
- Type
- Bank
- OS grid reference
- NX 970 762
- Coordinates
- 55.06983, -3.6142
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 52 and 54 Buccleuch Street in Dumfries, is a large Italianate bank designed by probably James Thomson of Glasgow in 1892. It features three storeys over a basement and has a symmetrical five-bay main elevation facing Buccleuch Street. The central bay is advanced and taller, showcasing a granite-columned and balustraded porch. The windows above this porch are canted on the first floor and recessed on the second floor, flanked by columns. An attic stage is situated above the main cornice.
On the Irish Street side, there are four bays, with the left bay advanced and featuring a canted window. The building is constructed of red ashlar stone, with rustication at the ground level and vermiculated dressings along with console keystones above the round-arched windows. The windows on the upper floors are architraved and have consoled cornices on the first floor. There are strings, bands, and cill courses between the floors, along with a frieze decorated with rosettes and a cornice. The roof is concealed by a balustraded parapet and is set behind a good cast-iron balustrade with red ashlar piers.
Inside, the banking hall features a suspended ceiling that has been modernized, encasing the upper parts of the columns.
Local climate
Bank, 52, 54 Buccleuch 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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