School, Queensberry Square, Sanquhar is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. School. 4 related planning applications.
School, Queensberry Square, Sanquhar
- WRENN ID
- wild-wattle-hawk
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- NS 779 101
- Coordinates
- 55.36982, -3.92746
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building is a school located in Queensberry Square, Sanquhar, dating from the late 19th to early 20th century. It features a T-plan layout with simplified late Victorian and Edwardian Baroque detailing. There is a later addition to the southwest that is excluded from the listing, which has mullioned and transomed windows. The school is a single storey with tall pedimented windows on the main elevations, each topped with round key-stoned heads above the main cornice.
The southeast elevation facing Queensberry Square is constructed of grey ashlar, while the rest of the building is made from rubble. It has three bays, with the inner bay protruding and featuring a large window that has both mullions and transoms, while the other windows consist of single lights. The eaves course and main cornice extend across the windows, and the building is topped with a steeply-pitched piended slate roof.
The northeast flank has two bays, and there is a lower rear wing that includes mostly square-headed mullioned windows. A piended porch is located in the re-entrant angle, featuring a segmental-arched door that also faces Queensberry Square, with a straight parapet above it.
The property is enclosed by plain iron gates and has a rubble-built wall surrounding the playground.
Local climate
School, Queensberry Square, Sanquhar sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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