Moorhead's Hospital, 103-107 St Michael Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Hospital. 6 related planning applications.
Moorhead's Hospital, 103-107 St Michael Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- guardian-wattle-nettle
- 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
- Hospital
- OS grid reference
- NX 974 756
- Coordinates
- 55.06485, -3.60731
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Moorhead's Hospital, located at 103-107 St Michael Street in Dumfries, was built between 1751 and 1753 as a paupers' hospital by contractors James Harley and Alexander Crombie. The building is two storeys high and is set above a basement, featuring a symmetrical H-plan design with a three-bay center and advanced single outer bays. The exterior is finished in painted render with contrasting ashlar margins.
The principal elevation faces east and includes a rusticated central doorway, which has a modern door, approached by steps. Above the doorway is a shaped panel that connects to the first-floor cill of a possibly enlarged timber-mullioned tripartite window. The windows are plate glass sash, and the building features an eaves and lintel band, a cornice, and a pair of massive axial stacks. Additionally, there is an open-worked timber axial ventilator and slated pavilion roofs. There is also a rear addition to the building.
Local climate
Moorhead's Hospital, 103-107 St Michael 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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