Public Library, Bank Street, Annan is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Public building, library. 2 related planning applications.

Public Library, Bank Street, Annan

WRENN ID
sombre-eave-ivory
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1971
Type
Public building, library
Address
Public Library, Bank Street, Annan, DG12 6AA
OS grid reference
NY 193 665
Coordinates
54.98676, -3.26178
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The public library on Bank Street in Annan, designed by George Washington Browne and built around 1880, showcases an Elizabethan Renaissance style. This three-storey building features three bays and a prominent shaped gable facing the street, with a fourth square bay to the right that is set forward and includes a gated pend leading to the market to the east. The structure is constructed of red ashlar and is adorned with large mullioned and transomed windows that have leaded panes. The door on the left and the pend are both designed with depressed arches and cornices, complemented by moulded reveals. The first-floor windows feature arched lights that are positioned between supporting Ionic pilasters on corbels, which in turn support an entablature. Attached columns flank the four-light arched windows and support a pediment. The building is topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

Public Library, Bank Street, Annan sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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