Former Mortuary is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Mortuary.
Former Mortuary
- WRENN ID
- haunted-zinc-pine
- 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
- Mortuary
- OS grid reference
- NX 977 754
- Coordinates
- 55.0629, -3.6025
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former mortuary, attributed to James Barbour and built around 1897-98, is a two-storey, six-bay building with a roughly L-shaped plan, featuring Scots and Italian Renaissance detailing. It is primarily constructed of bull-faced red ashlar and has a stringcourse that separates the ground and first floors. The south side has an advanced lower canted block with a pierced parapet. The west elevation, which is the main front, includes a round arched recessed entrance, tripartite windows, and dormers with segmental and triangular pediments, topped with star and rose finials. There is a later lean-to porch that is partially glazed, along with a two-storey piended advanced section on the east (rear) elevation. The glazing is non-traditional, and the roof is covered with slate. The interior was last seen in 2014 and has undergone extensive alterations.
Local climate
Former Mortuary 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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