Dumfries County Buildings, 109, 111 English Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Military barracks. 3 related planning applications.
Dumfries County Buildings, 109, 111 English Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- moated-wattle-bone
- 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
- Military barracks
- OS grid reference
- NX 974 761
- Coordinates
- 55.06939, -3.60693
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dumfries County Buildings, located at 109 and 111 English Street in Dumfries, were likely designed by James Barbour and date from around 1870, with an eastern range built as stores in 1875. The buildings are designed in the Scottish Baronial style, featuring snecked bull-faced red ashlar stone with polished dressings and slate roofs.
The original range is set back from the street and consists of three storeys. It has bipartite windows and single third-floor windows, which are topped with pedimented or crow-stepped dormer heads. The façade includes chequer-corbelling between the cills and an off-centre conical-roofed turret that rises above the eaves. A door is located in a recessed bay alongside the turret, with a third-floor window above it supported by a linking archway and the main wall plane. The windows are small-paned sash types, and the building features coped chimney stacks.
The addition to the building is set forward to align with the street and has corbelled parapets. It resembles a dummy tower house, complete with two asymmetrically corbelled bartisans and a linking archway. There is a slightly lower wing to the east that is corbelled inwards at the first floor, also featuring coped stacks.
Local climate
Dumfries County Buildings, 109, 111 English 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 — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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