Dumfries County Buildings, 109, 111 English Street, Dumfries

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.