54-56 English Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
54-56 English Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- wild-pier-weasel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1987
- Type
- Commercial
- OS grid reference
- NX 973 760
- Coordinates
- 55.0687, -3.60856
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
54-56 English Street in Dumfries is an early 19th-century building that stands three storeys tall. The ground floor features a modern shopfront, while the upper levels are divided into three bays. The exterior is finished in painted droved ashlar with margins. It has sash windows that display a 12-pane glazing pattern, an eaves course, and a single end stack. The east gable head has been partly rebuilt, and the roof is covered with slate.
Local climate
54-56 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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