32-40 George Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 July 1961. Terraced row of houses. 3 related planning applications.

32-40 George Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
plain-chapel-pigeon
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 July 1961
Type
Terraced row of houses
Address
32-40 George Street, Dumfries, DG1 1EH
OS grid reference
NX 970 763
Coordinates
55.0707, -3.61436
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

32-40 George Street in Dumfries is a late Georgian terraced row of houses, likely built around 1830. The two-storey buildings feature railed basements and attics, and are arranged in a near-symmetrical layout. The design includes a depressed-arched pend in a shallow, advanced off-centre bay. The exterior is made of polished red ashlar, which is mostly painted, and has channeling at the ground level with rusticated flat window arches.

To the left of the pend are three two-storey houses, while to the right is a single five-bay house (number 32), which was originally free-standing. This house has a depressed-arched doorway and a later 19th-century columned porch, along with panelled doors that feature fanlights. The windows are sash style, mostly with glazing bars. Additional architectural details include a string course at the first-floor cill level, an eaves course, a cornice, a blocking course, three dormers, end stacks, and slate roofs. Above the pend, there is a single window set within a recessed segmental-arched panel.

Local climate

32-40 George 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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