Torbay Lodge, 31 Lovers' Walk, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. House. 2 related planning applications.

Torbay Lodge, 31 Lovers' Walk, Dumfries

WRENN ID
open-flue-ochre
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 March 1981
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 974 765
Coordinates
55.07243, -3.60691
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Torbay Lodge, located at 31 Lovers' Walk in Dumfries, is a mid-19th century building. It has two storeys and features four bays, with a shallow advanced two-bay centre that includes a pilastered double porch with bipartite windows and side entrances. The exterior is made of red ashlar, and the ground floor windows are corniced and architraved. There is a cill band at the first floor level, and the sash windows mostly have four-pane glazing. The building also has an eaves course, cornice, blocking course, a single dormer, straight skews, end stacks, and a slate roof. It is set behind a rubble-built garden wall that has ashlar coping and square gatepiers.

Local climate

Torbay Lodge, 31 Lovers' Walk, 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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