55 High Street, Dumfries is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. Commercial building.

55 High Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
gilded-beam-holly
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 August 1987
Type
Commercial building
OS grid reference
NX 972 759
Coordinates
55.06739, -3.6102
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

55 High Street in Dumfries is an earlier 19th century, late Georgian, three-storey corner building that currently houses shops. It features a long eight-bay elevation facing Assembly Street, two bays on High Street, and a single bay in a curved corner that includes the main entrance. The shop front has late 19th century polished granite pilasters, and the main door is topped with a sculptured red ashlar pediment. Above the ground floor, the building has painted ashlar and architraves, with corniced windows on the first floor and a string course at the cill levels of both the first and second floors. The glazing is modern, and the building has a cornice, cut-down stacks, and a slate roof.

Local climate

55 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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